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Geologic Unit: Piney Run

Usage:

Piney Run Formation of Liberty Complex (MD)


Geologic age:

Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: along 1.7 km stretch of Piney Run and tributaries near Dover Church, west-central Baltimore Co., northeastern MD (Crowley, 1976).


AAPG geologic province:

Piedmont-Blue Ridge province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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