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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dawes sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Gillette, Tracy, 1947, The Clinton of western and central New York: New York State Museum Bulletin, no. 341, 191 p. [Available online from the New York State Library Digital Collections: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/snaoOLN03o/NYSL/306100041/503/68511#TOP]


Summary:

Name Dawes sandstone proposed for light-gray slightly calcareous sandstone exposed in town of Kirkland, Oneida Co., NY. Unit is very cross-bedded and unfossiliferous. Contains a few thin layers of arenaceous shales in basal part. Upper part stained red. Thickness about 8 ft. Unconformably underlies Kirkland iron ore; unconformably overlies Willowvale shale. Age is Middle Silurian.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dawes Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Lin, Bea-Yeh, and Brett, C.E., 1988, Stratigraphy and disconformable contacts of the Williamson-Willowvale interval; revised correlations of the late Llandoverian (Silurian) in New York State: Northeastern Geology, v. 10, no. 3, p. 241-253.


Summary:

Newly named Salmon Creek Bed at the base of the Irondequoit Limestone in western NY is correlated with the conglomeratic basal bed of the Dawes Formation in east-central NY. This basal bed of the Dawes has apparently been misidentified as Kirkland Hematite at several localities. Age of the Salmon Creek is Early and Middle Silurian (late Llandoverian and early Wenlockian)

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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