Usage:
Buzzard Knob Member of Weverton Formation (MD*,PA,VA*,WV*)
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along State Route 491 just north of Buzzard Knob in Raven Rock Hollow northeast of Smithsburg, Washington Co., MD (Brezinski, 1992).
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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