It is also known as the Pocono Group in Maryland and West Virginia,[2] and the upper part of the Pocono Formation is sometimes called the Burgoon Formation or Burgoon Sandstone in Pennsylvania.

[3][4] The Pocono is a major ridge-former In the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the eastern United States[5] The Pocono is also a lateral equivalent of the Purslane Sandstone in Maryland and West Virginia.

[6] The Pocono is a dominantly gray color with quartzitic medium to coarse-grained sandstones.

[7] Relative age dating of the Pocono places it in the lower Mississippian period.

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