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Geologic Unit: Woodmont

Usage:

Woodmont Formation (MD)
Woodmont Shale (MD*,WV*)
Woodmont Shale Member of Jennings Formation (PA,MD*)
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Geologic age:

Late Devonian*


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

Exposures in cut of the Western Maryland RR, 0.5 mi east of Woodmont Station, Washington Co., western MD (Swartz and others, 1913).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).