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  • Usage in publication:
    • New Creek Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Bowen, Z.P., 1966, Brachiopods and stratigraphy of the Elbow Ridge Sandstone (Lower Devonian) of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia: Journal of Paleontology, v. 40, no. 5, p. 1051-1062.


Summary:

New Creek Limestone mentioned in relation to Elbow Ridge Sandstone. In area around Hancock, MD, entire Lower Devonian sequence undergoes pronounced facies changes over the short distance of 10 or 15 mi, and the ages and relationships of these facies are not well known. In eastern part of area, all or part of the normally carbonate facies of New Creek Limestone is replaced by Elbow Ridge Sandstone.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • New Creek Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Bowen, Z.P., 1967, Brachiopods of the Keyser Limestone (Silurian-Devonian) of Maryland and adjacent areas: Geological Society of America Memoir, 102, 103 p.


Summary:

Name New Creek Limestone is proposed for interval of massive or poorly bedded intrasparite overlying the Keyser Limestone in report area (WV,MD). Unit has been mapped as Coeymans Limestone by earlier workers because of similarity in fossils, but unit cannot be traced to type area in NY. Thickness less than 14 ft. Underlies New Scotland Formation. Age is Early Devonian.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • New Creek Limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Harris, A.G., Stamm, N.R., Weary, D.J., Repetski, J.E., Stamm, R.G., and Parker, R.A., 1994, Conodont color alteration index (CAI) map and conodont-based age determinations for the Winchester 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent area, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-2239, 1 sheet, 40 p., scale 1:100,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_294.htm]


Summary:

Conodont biostratigraphy indicates that the New Creek Limestone of the Helderberg Group in the Winchester 30 X 60 minute quadrangle is of earliest Devonian (early Lochkovian) age. Conodonts were recovered from the I. WOSCHMIDTI Zone.

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


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