Usage:
Beaver Run Member of Ontelaunee Formation (NJ)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: not stated, although unit is included in measured sections. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Beaver Run, a tributary of Wallkill River, or for village of Beaver Run, both west of Hamburg, Sussex Co., north-central NJ (Markewicz and Dalton, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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