Usage:
Licking Creek Limestone (MD*,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Licking Creek Limestone of Helderberg Group (MD*,PA,VA*,WV*)
Licking Creek Limestone Member of Helderberg Formation (MD)
Licking Creek Member of Old Port Formation (PA)
Subunits:
(ascending) --in PA, MD,VA,WV: Cherry Run Member, Little Cove Member.
Geologic age:
Early Devonian (Lochkovian to Pragian?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Bluff on south side of Licking Creek, several hundred ft west of the bridge crossing creek about 1 mi east of Warren Point, Franklin Co., PA.
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.
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