Usage:
Hostler Limestone Member of Hatter Formation of Black River Group (PA)
Hostler Member of Hatter Formation of Black River Group (PA)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on both sides of Pennsylvania RR cut north of Union Furnace, Huntingdon Co., PA. Named from village of Hostler in Centre Co., 9 miles northeast of Union Furnace (Kay, 1943, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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