Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †French Creek Limestone Member (PA) reallocated to Meadville Shale Member of Cuyahoga Formation. See Meadville.)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: ravine at "Glendale" Cemetery, in Meadville city, northwestern PA [approx. Lat. 41 deg. 38 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 80 deg. 08 min. W.]. Named from outcrops in ravines eroded by tributaries to French Creek, Crawford Co., northwestern PA (Caster, 1934).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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