Usage:
No current usage.
(†Buckland Formation of Culpeper Group (VA) replaced with the Mount Zion Church Basalt, Midland Formation, Hickory Grove Basalt, Turkey Run Formation, and Sander Basalt of the Culpeper Group. See Mount Zion Church, Midland, Hickory Grove, Turkey Run, Sander.)
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Fifteen localities are designated in an area from the Rappahannock River north to a point 3.2 mi (5.1 km) south of Leesburg, Loudoun Co., VA. Named from outcrops on U.S. Highway 29-211 near Buckland, Prince William Co., VA. (Lindholm, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Culpeper basin
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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