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Geologic Unit: Camp

Usage:

Camp Member of Denley Limestone (NY)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures extending more than 1 mi on banks of Mill Creek, 1 mi east of Sackets Harbor, between NY Highway 3 and New York Central RR bridge. Named from Camp Mills, 2 mi east of Sackets Harbor, Jefferson Co., northern NY (Chenoweth, 1952).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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