Usage:
Boggs limestone [informal, unranked] in Pottsville Group (OH)
Considered informal and unranked. The lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from its correlation with the Boggs iron ore which crops out on Boggs Farm near South Webster in Scioto Co., OH (Stout, 1918).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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