Usage:
Hanover Shale Member of Java Formation (KY*,NY*,OH*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Hanover Shale Member of Java Formation of West Falls Group (NY)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian (latest Frasnian to earliest Famennian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type exposure: on Silver Creek, Hanover Twp., Chautauqua Co., western NY (Hartnagel, 1912; Chadwick, 1933).
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 ([ ]).