Usage:
Myers Shale of Pocono Group (WV*,MD*)
Myers Shale (WV)
Subunits:
Little Mountain member (informal) (WV)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Early*
Mississippian, Late
Meramecian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures on the Myers place, in Meadow Brook Valley, Berkeley Co., east-central WV (Stose and Swartz, 1912).
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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