Usage:
Pottstown shales (informal) (PA)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposed near Pottstown, Montgomery Co., PA (Lyman, 1895).
AAPG geologic province:
Newark 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 ([ ]).