Usage:
Balls Bluff Siltstone of Culpeper Group of Newark Supergroup (MD*,VA*)
Subunits:
Leesburg Member (MD*,VA*).
Geologic age:
Late Triassic (late Carnian to Norian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in a gully 1,350 ft (412 m) northeast from the flag pole at the Balls Bluff National Cemetery, Waterford 7.5-min quadrangle, Loudoun Co., VA (Lee, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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