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Geologic Unit: Stover

Usage:

Stover Limestone (PA,WV)
Stover Member of Benner Limestone (PA)
Stover Member of Linden Hall Formation (PA)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)


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

Type section: in Pennsylvania RR cut at Union Furnace, Huntingdon Co., PA. Named from station of Stover northeast of Nealmont, Blair Co., PA (Kay, 1944).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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