Usage:
Purslane Sandstone (WV,MD)
Purslane Sandstone of Pocono Group (WV*,MD*)
Purslane Sandstone Member of Pocono Formation (MD)
Purslane Formation (MD)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Early*
Osagean
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms Purslane Mountain, Morgan Co., east-central WV (Stose and Swartz, 1912).
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 ([ ]).