Usage:
Rockwell Formation (MD*,PA*)
Rockwell Member of Price Formation (WV*)
Subunits:
Patton Shale Member (PA,MD) and Riddlesburg Shale Member (WV,MD); Finzel tongue (MD,PA)
Geologic age:
Devonian, Late*
Mississippian, Early*
Kinderhookian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at Rockwell Run, 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.
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