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Geologic Unit: Price

Usage:

Price Formation (KY*,MD*,VA*,WV*)
Price Sandstone (VA*)
Price Siltstone (VA*)
Price Member of Grainger Formation (KY*,VA*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical): Big Stone Gap Shale Member (VA), Cloyd Conglomerate Member (VA,WV), Cussewago Sandstone Member (WV*) or Cussewago Member (WV*), Oswayo Member (MD,WV), Riddlesburg Member (WV) or Riddlesburg Shale Member (WV), Rockwell Member (WV), Sunbury Shale Member (VA,WV).


Geologic age:

Late Devonian to Early Mississippian*


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

Price Mountain, Montgomery Co., southwestern VA (Campbell, 1894).


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 ([ ]).