Memoir #03

Lauck W. Ward and Norman L. Gilinsky

Biostratigraphic Analysis of the Chowan River Formation (Upper Pliocene) and Adjoining Units, the Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation (Upper Pliocene) and the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene).

Mollusks of the upper Pliocene Chowan River Formation of southeastern Virginia and eastern North Carolina are compared with mollusks from adjoining older and younger units by traditional biostratigraphic methods and statistical Q-and R-mode cluster analysis.