Usage:
Stoufferstown Formation of Beekmantown Group (PA*)
Stoufferstown Member of Stonehenge Formation (PA)
Stoufferstown Member of Stonehenge Limestone (MD*,VA,WV*)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on Hoover Farm just north of U.S. Route 30, 2 mi southeast of center of Chambersburg near the community of Stoufferstown, Franklin Co., PA (Sando, 1958).
Type section (adjusted): is 12,000 feet east of the center of Chambersburg on U.S. Route 30. Stoufferstown no longer exists (Root, 1968).
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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