Usage:
Dry Fork Formation of Newark Supergroup (VA*)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late*
Carnian
Norian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: cuts 0.5 mi (0.8 km) south of Dry Fork, a town on State Road 718 about 0.5 mi (o.8 km) west of U.S. Highway 29, along the Southern Railway on Whiteoak Mountain, Mount Hermon quadrangle, 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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).