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  • Usage in publication:
    • Centennial School member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Swartz, F.M., 1957, Silurian sediments and relationships at Susquehanna Gap in Blue or Kittatinny Mountain, five miles north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geology Contributions, no. 57-3, 58 p., Revision of guide leaflet distributed at 14th Ann. Field Conf. Pennsylvania Geol., Harrisburg, PA, May 28-30, 1948. Reissued Sept. 25, 1958, with App. I, description of Susquehanna Gap section


Summary:

Named the Centennial School sandstone and shale member of the Bald Eagle sandstone in central PA. Unit is lower member of formation in Tyrone Gap area. Overlies Reedsville shale and underlies Spring Mount sandstone member.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Centennial School Member
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Thompson, A.M., 1970, Lithofacies and formation nomenclature in Upper Ordovician stratigraphy, central Appalachians, IN Note and Discussion: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, no. 4, p. 1255-1260.


Summary:

Attempts to apply member status to subdivisions of drab Bald Eagle and red Juniata Formations reveal inconsistencies. Thicknesses of Centennial School and Spring Mount Members of Eagle Formation and East Waterford Member of Juniata Formation fluctuate considerably and randomly in very short geographic distances. In addition, at several locations, drab shale is found above the massive sandstones of Spring Mount Member. They are not assignable to Spring Mount Member on lithologic basis, but they are not red so they cannot be assigned to Juniata either. Similarly, red sandstones and shales are found beneath East Waterford Member. They are not East Waterford lithology, but they cannot be assigned to Bald Eagle because of color. Proposal is to do away with formal member names and switch to lithofacies nomenclature for subdivisions of these formation. [Centennial School Member is not formally abandoned in this report.]

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


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