Price Formation
The Price Formation is a geologic formation in Virginia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.
| Price Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Famennian- Tournaisian | |
Outcrop of Merrimac Coal, Price Formation; Valley Coalfield, Virginia | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Sub-units | Merrimac Coal, Langhorne Coal |
| Underlies | Maccrady Formation and Greenbrier Group |
| Overlies | Hampshire Group and Sunbury Shale |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | shale, siltstone |
| Other | coal |
| Location | |
| Region | Virginia and West Virginia |
| Country | United States |
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