Usage:
St. Paul Group (MD*,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): New Market Limestone (MD*,PA*,VA*,WV*), Row Park Limestone (MD*,PA*,WV*).
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Ordovician (Whiterockian; Chazyan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
St. Paul's church, 2.2 mi west of Clear Spring, Washington Co., MD (Neuman, 1951).
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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