Usage:
Meadville Shale of Cuyahoga Group (OH*,PA*)
Meadville Shale Member of Cuyahoga Formation (OH,PA)
Subunits:
Custards Member (PA).
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Meadville, Crawford Co., northwestern PA (White, 1881).
Well exposed in Cuyahoga, Medina, and Summit Cos., northeastern OH.
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).