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  • Usage in publication:
    • Buffalo Creek limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Hennen, R.V., and Reger, D.B., 1914, Logan and Mingo Counties [West Virginia, with a section on paleontology by W.A. Price]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-13], 776 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500), Soil map and report, prepared in cooperation with U.S. Bur. Soils, issued separately


Summary:

Buffalo Creek limestone in Kanawha formation is a hard, brittle, bluish gray, marine, fossiliferous limestone, 0 to 15 in. thick. Separated from overlying Buffalo Creek coal by 35 to 80 ft of fire clay and shale. Underlain by Upper Winifrede sandstone.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Buffalo Creek†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Rice, C.L., Hiett, J.K., and Koozmin, E.D., 1994, Glossary of Pennsylvanian stratigraphic names, central Appalachian basin, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 115-155.


Summary:

Name Buffalo Creek limestone herein abandoned. This marine limestone and shale in Kanawha Formation, Mingo Co., WV, is equivalent to the Winifrede Shale Member of Kanawha Formation of Blake and others (1994).

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


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