Nassawadox Formation: Occohannock Member

Occohannock Member (Mixon, 1985). Light-yellowish-gray, fine to medium sand underlying southwest-sloping terrace (altitude 30-18 feet) on west side of upland. Sand is dominantly massive to horizontally bedded, but shows some small-scale cross-bedding; locally contains clay and silt as matrix and thin beds. Unit was deposited in a low-energy, open-bay environment. Thickness ranges from a featheredge near bay-facing scarp along western margin of upland to 20 feet in downdip areas near present bay.
State Virginia
Name Nassawadox Formation: Occohannock Member
Geologic age Quaternary
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Comments Coastal Plain, East of Chesapeake Bay
References

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993, Geologic Map of Virginia: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, scale 1:500,000.

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 2003, Digital Representation of the 1993 Geologic Map of Virginia, Publication 174, CD ROM (ISO-9660) contains image file, expanded explanation in pdf, and ESRI shapefiles, scale 1:500,000.

NGMDB product
Counties Accomack - Northampton