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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tuckerton Member
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Wood, C.R., and MacLachlan, D.B., 1978, Geology and groundwater resources of northern Berks County, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey Water Resource Report, 4th series, no. 44, 91 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

First used the Tuckerton Member of the Allentown Formation. Unit is lowest member of formation. Consists of gray dolomite to silty dolomite; usually thick bedded with interbedded limestone and particularly prominent cyclic algal and oolite beds near top; some sharpstone conglomerate; beds tend to be more calcareous and shaly toward base, and may be older than otherwise equivalent Conococheague Group. Underlies Muhlenberg Member.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tuckerton Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Dolomite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

MacLachlan, D.B., 1979, Geology and mineral resources of the Temple and Fleetwood quadrangles, Berks County, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey Topographic and Geologic Atlas, 4th series, 187ab, 71 p., scale 1:24,000 and 1:48,000


Summary:

Named as lower member of 3 of the Allentown Formation. The type locality is the village of Tuckerton in the south-central part of the Temple quadrangle, Berks Co., PA. "Predominantly medium-gray and light- to medium-dark-gray, magnesian and calcareous limestone and dolomite in 20-cm to 1-m beds". Calculated to be 150 to 180 m (500 to 600 ft) thick. Conformably overlies the Leithsville Formation; conformably underlies the Muhlenberg Member of the Allentown Formation. Assigned to Late Cambrian.

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


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

Drake, A.A., Jr., 1987, Geologic map of the Topton quadrangle, Lehigh and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1609, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_1134.htm]


Summary:

Adopted as Tuckerton Member of the Allentown Dolomite in southeast Lehigh and Berks Cos., PA. "Medium- to thick-bedded, light- to dark-medium-gray dolomite, magnesian limestone, and limestone. The limy beds typically have silty or shaly partings." Assigned to the Late Cambrian.

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


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