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Geologic Unit: Lowerre

Usage:

Lowerre Quartzite (NY*,CT)
Lowerre Formation (CT*)


Geologic age:

Early Cambrian*


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

Exposures near Lowerre Station in Yonkers, at Hastings marble quarry and about 0.5 mi south of Sparta on shore of Hudson River, southern Westchester Co., southeastern NY (Merrill, 1898).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province*


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 ([ ]).