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Bald Eagle Formation

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Faill, R.T., Glover, A.D., and Way, J.H., 1989, Geology and mineral resources of the Blandburg, Tipton, Altoona, and Bellwood quadrangles, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield and Centre Counties, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey Topographic and Geologic Atlas, 4th series, 86, 209 p., scale
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Grabau, A.W., 1909, Physical and faunal evolution of North America during Ordovicic, Siluric, and Early Devonic time: Journal of Geology, v. 17, p. 209-252.
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Berg, T.M., Edmunds, W.E., Geyer, A.R. and others, compilers, (1980). Geologic Map of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geologic Survey, Map 1, scale 1:250,000.
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Berg, T.M., et al., (1983). Stratagraphic Correlation Chart of Pennsylvania: G75, Pennsylvania Geologic Survey, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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of the Bald Eagle has always been interpreted as mostly terrestrial or shallow marine deposits resulting in a
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period, being deposited between 488.3 and 443.7 (±10) million years ago. It rests conformably atop the
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The Bald Eagle is defined as a gray to olive-gray and grayish-red, fine to coarse-grained
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Very few fossils exist in the Bald Eagle Formation, and most of them are
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member, called the Lost Run Member, exists in some locations.
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Relative age dating of the Bald Eagle places it in the Upper
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in the Bald Eagle Formation, from the Skytop Roadcut where
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Natural outcrop of the Bald Eagle Formation visible from
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Northeastern United States geologic formation stubs
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Ordovician

Rt. 164
Tussey Mountain
Blair County
Pennsylvania
Juniata Formation
Reedsville Formation
sandstone
conglomerate
shale
Appalachian Mountains
Bald Eagle Mountain
Ordovician
Pennsylvania
ridge-forming
Appalachian Mountains

Rt. 164
Tussey Mountain
Blair County
Pennsylvania
crossbedding
crossbedded
sandstone
greywacke
conglomeratic
depositional environment
molasse

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