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  • Usage in publication:
    • Babcock Hill member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Chert
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Stevenson, R.E., 1949, Geologic structures of the Lower Devonian rocks of central New York (Progress Report): New York State Science Service Report of Investigations, no. 3, 16 p.


Summary:

Pg. 7, 8. Babcock Hill member of Onondaga formation. Named and described as thin- to medium-bedded gray fine-grained fossiliferous limestone with abundant nodular and irregularly bedded cream-colored to black chert. Thickness 36 to 50 feet. Underlies unnamed member; overlies Springfield Center member (new). Age is Middle Devonian.
Occurs in area of Herkimer-Otsego Co. line, east-central NY.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 186).


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