Usage:
Switzer Creek Member of Windsor Township Formation (PA*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Whiterockian; late Chazyan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures along Switzer Creek, Topton and Kutztown 7.5-min quadrangles, Lehigh Co., PA (Lash and Drake, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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