Usage:
Catharpin Creek Formation of Culpeper Group of Newark Supergroup (VA*)
Catharpin Creek Formation of Newark Supergroup (VA*)
Subunits:
Goose Creek Member (VA*).
Geologic age:
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along Catharpin Creek north and northwest of Haymarket, Prince William Co., central VA (Lee and Froelich, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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