- Usage in publication:
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- Bearwallow conglomerate*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Conglomerate
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Bearwallow conglomerate of Pottsville group. Coarse conglomerate in most places, but in some places the pebbles are absent and the rock is coarse sandstone. Thickness about 60 feet. Underlies Dotson sandstone and overlies Dismal formation. Age is Pennsylvanian.
Named from Bearwallow Ridge, west of Dry Fork, McDowell Co., southern WV. Extends into southwestern VA.
[GNC remark (ca. 1936, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 136): According to H. Hinds, 1918 (Virginia Geol. Survey Bull., no. 18), the typical Dotson sandstone is same as typical Bearwallow conglomerate.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 135).
- Usage in publication:
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- Bearwallow Sandstone Member*
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Bearwallow Conglomerate is reduced in rank to the Bearwallow Sandstone Member of the Kanawha Formation in the Jewell Ridge quad., Buchanan and Tazewell Cos., VA. Age of the Bearwallow is modified to Middle Pennsylvanian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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