Usage:
Conneaut Formation (NY,OH,PA)
Conneaut Group (NY,PA)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Chadakoin Formation (NY), Cotton Formation (NY,PA), Cuba Sandstone (NY), Dexterville Formation (NY), Ellicott Shale (NY), Germania Formation (NY,PA), Girard Formation (PA), Rawson Formation (NY), Sunfish Formation (PA), Wellsville Formation (NY), Whitesville Formation (NY).
Geologic age:
Late Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Conneaut Creek, northwestern PA (Caster, 1934; Chadwick, 1934; Chadwick, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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