Usage:
Limeport Formation (PA*)
Limeport Limestone (NJ, PA)
Limeport Member of Allentown Formation (NJ)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian (Trempealeauan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Section in southernmost of two abandoned quarries at Limeport, at eastern tip of Buckingham Valley, Bucks Co., PA. Locality is 0.3 mi due west of PA Highway 32, 2.1 mi northwest of bridge across Delaware River at New Hope, PA (Howell and others, 1950).
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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