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Geologic Unit: Berne

Usage:

Berne Member of Marcellus Shale (NY)
Berne Member of Mount Marion Formation (NY)


Subunits:

Dave Elliott Bed (NY).


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


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

Type section in hill south of Berne, in Berne-Durham quadrangle, eastern NY, where member is 280 feet thick. [Named from town of Berne, Albany Co., eastern NY.] (Cooper, 1933).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


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

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