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  • Usage in publication:
    • Beckville Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
    • Sandstone
    • Siltstone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Trexler, J.P., Wood, G.H., Jr., and Arndt, H.H., 1962, Uppermost Devonian and Lower Mississippian rocks of the western part of the anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania, IN Geological Survey Research 1962; short papers in geology, hydrology, and topography; Articles 60-119: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 450-C, p. C36-C39., See also GeoScience Abs., v. 4, no. 12, pt. 1, Dec. 1962 (summary)


Summary:

Named Beckville Member of the Pocono Formation for Beckville, Schuylkill Co., PA. Consists of fine to coarse quartz-pebble conglomerate that is overlain by intercalated beds of fine pebble conglomerate, conglomeratic sandstone, quartzose sandstone, subgraywacke, siltstone, shale, and a few thin lenses of anthracite. Basal unit of member is 18 feet thick and consists of very light gray to light-olive-gray quartz-pebble conglomerate that rests on a 30-foot unit of light-olive-gray dark-brown weathering shale and siltstone of the Spechty Kopf Member of the Catskill Formation. The Beckville is 544 feet thick at the type section and is 800 feet thick in the vicinity of Lykens. Unit underlies the Mount Carbon Member of the Pocono Formation. It is of Early Mississippian age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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