Usage:
Kittatinny Limestone (NJ*,PA*)
Kittatinny Supergroup (NJ*,PA*)
Subunits:
(ascending) Leithsville Formation, Allentown Dolomite, and Beekmantown Group of Kittatinny Supergroup (all NJ*,PA*); Leithsville, Allentown, and Rickenbach Members of Kittatinny Limestone (all NJ)
Geologic age:
Cambrian*
Ordovician, Early*
Ordovician, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. First described in Kittatinny Valley, NJ (Rogers, 1840).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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