Wills Creek Formation

Wills Creek Formation
Stratigraphic range: Silurian
Tight anticlinal fold in the Wills Creek Formation, along Route 22, Neff, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Typesedimentary
UnderliesTonoloway Formation
OverliesBloomsburg Formation and Williamsport Formation
Lithology
PrimarySandstone, shale
OtherSiltstone, limestone, dolomite
Location
RegionAppalachian Mountains
ExtentPennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Type section
Named forWills Creek at Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland
Named byP. R. Uhler, 1905

Wills Creek Formation is a mapped Silurian bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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