Usage:
No current usage.
(†Oronoco Formation (VA) replaced with Swift Run Formation. See Swift Run.)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Northeastern part of Buena Vista quadrangle Named from Oronoco Post Office, Amherst Co., central VA (Bloomer and Bloomer, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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