Usage:
Needmore Shale (MD*,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Needmore Shale of Onondaga Group (PA)
Needmore Shale Member of Romney Formation (MD)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Beaver Dam Shale Member (MD,PA,VA,WV), Selinsgrove Limestone Member (PA).
Geologic age:
early Middle Devonian (Eifelian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in southern Fulton Co., PA, between Needmore and Warfordsburg (Bradford, 1939).
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 ([ ]).