Usage:
No current usage.
(†Border Conglomerate (VA) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to several formations.)
Geologic age:
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic(?) (Carnian to Pliensbachian?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not designated. Border Conglomerate is a term proposed for conglomerates along the east and west borders of the Triassic basins in VA (Roberts, 1928).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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