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Geologic Unit: Buffalo Springs

Usage:

Buffalo Springs Formation (PA*)
Buffalo Springs Formation of Conococheague Group (PA*)


Geologic age:

Cambrian, Middle
Cambrian, Late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: partial section measured along old trolley line about 0.7 mile southeast of Buffalo Springs, Lebanon Co., PA (Gray and others, 1958).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).