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The Castle Hayne Limestone (also called the Castle Hayne Formation) is a middle Eocene-aged geologic formation in North Carolina, USA. [1] It consists of cobble to pebble sized clasts, usually rounded, coated with phosphate and glauconite in a limestone matrix. The formation has been dated to the middle Eocene, but its exact age remains ...
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Further research split off the Miocene Belgrade Formation from the Trent Marl and considered the River Bend formation as part of the Castle Hayne Limestone. [1] The River Bend formation was then identified as an Oligocene limestone and broken out from the Castle Hayne Limestone. The Trent Marl nomenclature is no longer used.
The Peedee Formation is a geologic formation in North and South Carolina.A marine deposit representing an inner neritic environment, [2] named for exposures along the Great Peedee River, it preserves invertebrate (primarily belemnites, echinoderms and foraminifera) and vertebrate (primarily shark teeth, with some marine reptile remains) fossils dating to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).
The New Hanover County Commissioners approved a rezoning that will allow the project to move forward. The planning board had previously rejected it.
The Beaufort Formation is exposed in a few areas around the coastal plain, though it usually is combined with the Eocene Castle Hayne formation. Mosley Creek near Grifton, NC is a good area to find Paleocene fossils in the state. Brachiopods and bivalves are common in this formation. trephoceras sloani has also been reported from Mosley Creek.
A new proposed subdivision in Castle Hayne could bring in over a thousand housing units for those looking to move to the northern end of the county.
Eelco Tinga (1882-1973), a native of The Netherlands, was one of the immigrants who Hugh MacRae (1865-1951) brought to the Castle Hayne area, according to the New Hanover County Public Library's ...