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Geologic Unit: Myers
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Myers shale*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Stose, G.W., and Swartz, C.K., 1912, Description of the Pawpaw and Hancock quadrangles [Maryland-West Virginia-Pennsylvania]: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States Folio, Pawpaw-Hancock folio, no. 179, 24 p.


Summary:

Named Myers shale for Myers place in the Meadow Brook valley, Berkeley Co., WV. Consists of largely bright-red crumbly shale and thin argillaceous sandstones, with, at base, thick cross-bedded dirty-gray gritty sandstone 60 feet thick. Unit is greater than 800 feet thick. It underlies the Pinkerton sandstone and overlies the Hedges shale; all are included in the Pocono group. The Myers is of Mississippian age.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Myers shale*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Myers Shale
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
    • Revised
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Lessing, Peter, Dean, S.L., and Kulander, B.R., 1992, Stratigraphy and structure of Meadow Branch synclinorium, West Virginia: Southeastern Geology, v. 32, no. 3, p. 166-174.


Summary:

The Meadow Branch synclinorium, Berkley Co., WV, is composed of five formations: Rockwell, Purslane, Hedges, Myers, and Pinkerton, for many years assigned to the Pocono Group. The three basal units are retained as Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian and Osagean). Only the Purslane is correlative with the original Pocono Formation of northeastern PA. The Myers is 396 m thick in the Meadow Branch synclinorium, and consists for the most part of red shale. A basal yellow-buff sandstone approximately 30 m thick is here informally named the Little Mountain member. The Myers Shale is now correlated with the Late Mississippian (Meramecian) Maccrady Formation of southwestern VA. The Little Mountain member, however, is not known outside the synclinorium. The Myers was erroneously mapped as Hampshire on the WV State geologic Map (1968).

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


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