Kinzers Formation

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Kinzers Formation
Stratigraphic range: Cambrian
Kinzers Formation Sgw01326.jpg
Reticulately weathered argillaceous-banded limestone of upper member of Kinzers Formation. USGS photo.
TypeSedimentary
Sub-unitsEmigsville Mb., York Mb., Greenmount Mb.
UnderliesLedger Formation
OverliesVintage Dolomite
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
OtherShale, marble
Location
RegionMid-Atlantic United States
Country United States
ExtentPennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
Type section
Named forKinzers, Pennsylvania
Named byStose, G.W., and Jonas, A.I.[1]
Another view of the type section.

The Kinzers Formation is a geologic formation in Pennsylvania. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian Period.

The base of the Kinzers Formation is primarily a dark-brown shale. The middle is a gray and white spotted limestone and, locally, marble having irregular partings. The top is a sandy limestone which weathers to a fine-grained, friable, porous, sandy mass.[2]

Type section[]

Named from exposures at a railroad cut at Kinzers, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1]

Other outcrops[]

The Kinzers overlies the Vintage Dolomite at the type section of the Vintage at a railroad cut at Vintage, Pennsylvania.

The section at Vintage. The Kinzers is the darker, layered rock above the lighter Vintage.

High quality fossil specimens (Lagerstätte) were obtained from the Noah Getz Quarry, one mile north of Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania, but the quarry location is overgrown and disturbed by development. The fossils are from the Emigsville Member, and include the trilobite Olenellus thompsoni, the arthropod Anomalocaris pennsylvanica, the bivalve Tuzoia getzi, and the green algae Margaretia dorus.[3][4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Stose, G.W., and Jonas, A.I., 1922. The lower Paleozoic section in southeastern Pennsylvania, Washington Academy of Sciences, Journal v. 12, no. 5, p. 358-366 [1]
  2. ^ Berg, T. M., Edmunds, W. E., Geyer, A. R., and others, compilers, 1980, Geologic map of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., Map 1, 2nd ed., 3 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
  3. ^ Resser, C.E. & B.F. Howell. 1938. Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49: 195-248, 13 pls. [2]
  4. ^ Noah Getz Quarry at mindat.org

External links[]

  • Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)


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