Usage:
Lunga Reservoir Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Cambrian*
Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Lunga Reservoir on the Quantico Marine Base, Joplin 7.5-min quadrangle, Stafford Co., VA. Exposures are in abandoned quarry E of Lunga Reservoir, along shore of reservoir, and on Beaver Dam Run that drains reservoir (Pavlides, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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