Usage:
Allentown Member of Kittatinny Limestone (NJ)
Allentown Limestone (PA)
Allentown Formation (NJ,PA)
Allentown Dolomite (NJ*,PA*)
Allentown Dolomite of Kittatinny Supergroup (NJ*,PA*)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Limeport Member (NJ), Maiden Creek Member (PA*), Muhlenberg Member (PA*), Tuckerton Member (PA*).
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian (Trempealeauan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures along Lehigh and Jordan Creeks in vicinity of Allentown, Lehigh Valley district, eastern PA (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).