Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bear Mountain Member of Pocono Formation (PA) considered abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Rockwell Formation. See Rockwell.)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on Horse Shoe curve, between Altoona and Gallitzin, [Altoona 15-min quadrangle], Blair Co., Northern Anthracite Field, central PA (Swartz, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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