Usage:
Wymps Gap Limestone Member of Mauch Chunk Formation (PA)
Wymps Gap Limestone Tongue of Greenbrier Limestone Member of Mauch Chunk Formation (PA)
Wymps Gap Member of Greenbrier Formation (MD*,PA,WV)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Wymps Gap about 12 mi south of Uniontown, Fayette Co., PA, and 1 mi north of PA-WV boundary (Flint, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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