Usage:
Edgecliff Member of Onondaga Limestone (NY*,PA)
Edgecliff Limestone of Onondaga Group (PA)
Subunits:
/Springvale submember [informal] (NY).
["Submember" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983). Considered informal and should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
early Middle Devonian (Eifelian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Edgecliff Park, southwest of Syracuse and 1 mi northeast of Howlet Hill, Camillus quadrangle, Onondaga Co., central NY. Most accessible exposure at Split Rock, but name preoccupied (Oliver, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).