Usage:
New Market Limestone of St. Paul Group (MD*,PA*,WV*)
New Market Formation of St. Paul Group (PA)
New Market Limestone (VA*)
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Ordovician (late Whiterockian; Chazyan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in Madden quarry, near New Market, Shenandoah Co., north-central VA (Cooper and Cooper, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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