The Vintage Dolomite is a
geologic formation in
Pennsylvania. It preserves
fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
period.
Type section
Named from exposures at a railroad cut at
Vintage,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
[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. 358-36]
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File:Vintage Dolomite 20190523.jpg, Photo of the type section in 2019. The Kinzers Formation
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, lo ...
overlying the dolomite is about a meter thick in this photo.
File:Bulletin 799 Plate 3B Vintage Dolomite in quarry at Kinzers.jpg, Vintage Dolomite in quarry at Kinzers. Shows well-bedded character of lower part of Vintage dolomite.
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Pennsylvania
* Paleontology in Pennsylvania
References
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Cambrian geology of Pennsylvania
Cambrian southern paleotemperate deposits
Geologic formations of Pennsylvania
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