Usage:
Rockway Dolomite Member of Irondequoit Limestone (NY)
Rockway Dolomite of Clinton Group (NY*)
Subunits:
Salmon Creek Phosphate Bed (NY*,CAN).
Geologic age:
early Silurian (Wenlock)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
In Fifteen Mile Creek at Rockway, Ontario, Canada (Kilgour, 1963).
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 ([ ]).