Usage:
Clover Member of Loysburg Formation (PA*)
Geologic age:
Middle and/or Late Ordovician (Chazyan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Pennsylvania RR cut, Union Furnace, Huntingdon Co., PA. Named from Clover Creek, east of Williamsburg, Blair Co., central PA (Kay, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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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 ([ ]).