Usage:
No current usage?
(†Cedar Forest Formation of Newark Supergroup (VA) considered abandoned? Not used by the USGS. Uncertain if used by the VA Geol. Survey. Possibly replaced with Dry Fork Formation. See Dry Fork.)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: outcrops along The Virginian RR, 0.5 mi (0.8 km) northwest of Long Island Station, Campbell Co., VA. Named from the town of Cedar Forest at the junction of State Roads 761 and 639, Pittsylvania Co., VA (Meyertons, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Dan River-Danville 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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