Usage:
Bluefield Formation (KY*,VA*,WV*)
Bluefield Formation of Mauch Chunk Group (VA*,WV*)
Bluefield Shale (VA*)
Bluefield Formation of Pennington Group (KY)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Ada Shale Member (VA,WV), Bickett Shale Member (VA,WV), Droop Sandstone Member (VA,WV), Glenray Limestone Member (VA,WV), Indian Mills Sandstone Member (VA*,WV*), Lillydale Shale Member (VA,WV), Possumtrot Shale Member (VA,WV), Reynolds Limestone Member (WV), Talcott Shale Member (WV), Webster Springs Sandstone Member (WV).
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Mississippian (Visean to Serpukhovian; Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Bluefield, Mercer Co., southern WV (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian 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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