Usage:
Foreknobs Formation (PA*,VA*,WV*)
Foreknobs Formation of Greenland Gap Group (MD,PA,VA,WV)
Subunits:
(ascending) Mallow Member, Briery Gap Sandstone Member, Blizzard Member, Pound Sandstone Member, and Red Lick Member (all MD,VA,WV,PA)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along WV Highway 42, measured section 1, 0.48 km northwest of Scherr, Grant Co., east-central WV (Dennison, 1970).
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.
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