Usage:
Little Falls Dolostone (NY)
Little Falls Dolomite (NY*)
Little Falls Dolomite of Saratoga Springs Group (NY)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at pass in Mohawk Valley at Little Falls, Herkimer Co., east-central NY (Clarke, 1903; Hartnagel, 1912).
Type section (composite): 6 localities in Little Falls area [see Zenger (1976) for complete description].
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift*
New England 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 ( ).
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