Rockdale Run Formation

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Rockdale Run Formation
Stratigraphic range: Lower Ordovician
Tubular passage (Skyline Caverns, Front Royal, Virginia, USA) (28378186022).jpg
Rockdale Run Formation in Skyline Caverns, Virginia
Type Formation
Unit of Beekmantown Group
Underlies Pinesburg Station Dolomite
Overlies Stonehenge Limestone
Thickness2450 ft [1]
Lithology
Primary Limestone
Other dolomite, chert
Location
Region Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia [2] and West Virginia
CountryUnited States

The Rockdale Run Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. [1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

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