Usage:
Java Formation (KY*,NY*,OH*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Java Formation of West Falls Group (NY)
Java Group (NY,PA)
Java Shale Member of Chattanooga Shale (VA)
Subunits:
(Group) Hanover Shale (NY), Pipe Creek Shale (NY), and Wiscoy Formation (NY,PA); (Formation) Pipe Creek Shale Member (KY*,NY*,OH*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*), Wiscoy Sandstone Member (NY*), Hanover Shale Member (NY*,PA*,OH*,WV*,KY*,MD*,VA*)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures along Beaver Meadow Creek above Angel Falls, near Java Twp., Wyoming Co., NY (de Witt, 1960).
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 ([ ]).