Warrior_Formation
The Cambrian Warrior Formation is a mapped limestone bedrock unit in Pennsylvania.
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Warrior Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Cambrian | |
Type | sedimentary |
Underlies | Gatesburg Formation |
Overlies | Pleasant Hill Formation |
Thickness | 250 ft at type sections,[1] 1350 ft in Nittany Arch,[2] 746 ft at Waddle.[3] |
Lithology | |
Primary | limestone |
Other | shale, siltstone, sandstone |
Location | |
Region | Appalachian Basin |
Country | United States |
Extent | Bedford Co., Blair Co., Centre Co., Huntingdon Co.[4] |
Type section | |
Named for | Warrior Run, Blair County |
Named by | C. Butts, 1918[1] |
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The Warrior Formation is described by Berg and others as gray, thin- to medium-bedded, fossiliferous, cyclic limestone bearing stromatolites, interbedded with shale, siltstone, and sandstone.[5]
Fossils
- Trilobites,[1] including Crepicephalus, Cedaria, Llanoaspidella,[3] and Blountia kindlei Resser, Coosella brevis Resser, Kingstonia ara (Walcott), K. kindlei Resser, and other Kingstonia species, Menomonia avitas (Walcott), Blountia, Modocia, Lonchocephalus, Genevievella, Pemphigaspis.[6]
- Brachiopods[3]
- Cryptozoon, a type of trace fossil[1][6]
- Stromatolites[5]
Notable Exposures
- Type section: Warrior Run, 1 mile east of Williamsburg, Blair County
- Warrior Creek (formerly Warriorsmark Creek), east of Warriors Mark, Huntingdon County
- Section near Waddle, Pennsylvania.[3]
Relative age dating places the Warrior Formation in the middle to late Cambrian.
- Butts, Charles, 1918, Geologic section of Blair and Huntingdon Counties, central Pennsylvania: American Journal of Science, 4th series, v. 46, p. 523-537.
- Wilson, J.L., 1952, Upper Cambrian stratigraphy in the central Appalachians: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 63, no. 3, p. 275-322.
- USGS Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data, retrieved 4 Mar. 2011
- Charles Butts, 1945. Hollidaysburg-Huntingdon folio, Pennsylvania, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 227. United States Geological Survey.
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