Usage:
Martinsburg Formation (MD,NJ*,NY*,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Martinsburg Shale (MD*,NJ*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Martinsburg Shale of Chickamauga Group (TN)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Bushkill Member (NJ*,NY,PA*), Fairview Member (PA), Fincastle Conglomerate Member (VA), High Point Member (NJ*,NY*), Jonestown Beds (PA) or /Jonestown Volcanics [Member] (PA), Paxton Creek Conglomerate Member (PA), Pen Argyl Member (PA*), Ramseyburg Member (NJ*,NY*,PA*), Shochary Sandstone Member (NJ,PA), Shochary Ridge Member (PA), Stickley Run Member (VA*,WV*), West Fairview Member (PA).
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian to Cincinnatian; late Turinian to Maysvillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., east-central WV (Geiger and Keith, 1891).
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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