Usage:
Hungry Run Sandstone Member of Orangeville Shale of Cuyahoga Group (PA*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Small quarry on a headwater of Hungry Run, 1 mi west of southeastern corner of Union Twp., Erie Co., northwestern PA. Also exposed in Crawford Co. (de Witt, 1951; Pepper and others, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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