Pg. 20, 21. Bear Mountain Member of Pocono Formation. A.D. Leonard (unpub. thesis) termed the upper and lower divisions of the Pocono at Jim Thorpe, Bear Mountain Member and Silkmill Run Member, respectively. These members likewise were found in ridges along the rim of the Northern Anthracite Field in central Pennsylvania, where they are overlain by a body of calcareous sandstone designated Abrahams Creek Member. Thickness of Bear Mountain 599 feet. Composed of cycles tending to grade upward from conglomerate into sandstone and in some instances into thin interval of shale, generally thin with some truncation by scour below base of next higher beds. "Bear Mountain" of Lehigh Gap appears to be correlative with both Beckville and Mount Carbon Members at Westwood Gap. Age is Mississippian.
Area of report is Horse Shoe curve, between Altoona and Gallitzin, [Altoona 15-min quadrangle], Blair Co., central PA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 51-52).