Rockdale Run Formation Explained

Rockdale Run Formation
Type:Formation
Age:Lower Ordovician
Period:Early Ordovician
Prilithology:Limestone
Otherlithology:dolomite, chert
Region:Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia[1] and West Virginia
Country:United States
Unitof:Beekmantown Group
Underlies:Pinesburg Station Dolomite
Overlies:Stonehenge Limestone
Thickness:2450 ft

The Rockdale Run Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.[2] It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

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  1. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19078 Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau
  2. http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/RockdaleRunRefs_3597.html Geologic Unit: Rockdale Run, USGS