Usage:
Allegheny Formation (MD*,OH*,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Allegheny Group (OH,PA*)
Subunits:
Glen Richey (PA), Laurel Run (PA), Mineral Springs (PA), Millstone Run (PA), Clearfield Creek (PA); Clarion (OH,MD*,PA,WV), Kittanning (PA*), Freeport (PA*,MD, OH*,WV*); Putnam Hill (OH*,PA*); Vanport (PA*,MD*,OH*,WV*); Butler (MD*,PA*), Worthington (MD*,PA*); Washingtonville (OH,PA,WV), Columbiana (OH).
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in valley of Allegheny River, western PA (Rogers, 1840).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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