Usage:
Mallow Member of Foreknobs Formation (MD,PA,VA,WV)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along road beside Briery Gap Run near Judy Gap, leading from U.S. Highway 33 to Spruce Knob, Pendleton Co., east-central WV (Dennison, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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