Usage:
Tribes Hill Limestone (NY*)
Tribes Hill Formation of Beekmantown Group (NY)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Chuctanunda Creek Dolomite Member, Cranesville Dolomite Member, Fonda Member, Fort Ann Member, Fort Johnson Member, Heuvelton Member, Palatine Bridge Member, Wolf Hollow Member.
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Tribes Hill, [about 30 mi. east of type locality of Little Falls Dolomite], Montgomery Co., eastern NY (Ulrich and Cushing, 1910).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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