Usage:
Beckville Member of Pocono Formation (PA*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on east side of water gap cut in Second Mountain by West Branch of Schuylkill River in Pottsville quadrangle, Schuylkill Co., PA. Named from village of Beckville (Trexler and others, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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