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  • Usage in publication:
    • Barge Canal Bed
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Ciurca, S.J., Jr., 1990, Eurypterid biofacies of the Silurian-Devonian evaporite sequence; Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, and New York, IN Lash, G.G., ed., Western New York and Ontario; field trip guidebook: New York State Geological Association Guidebook, 62nd annual meeting, Fredonia, NY, no. 62, p. Sat/Sun D1-D30.


Summary:

Barge Canal Bed of Vernon Formation was introduced by author in a 1985 abstract (Rochester Acad. Sci Proc). The black shales at the Barge Canal were first described by Ruedemann (1919: New York State Museum Bull. 219-220). Outcrop is exposed when the canal is drained during the winter and consists of black shale grading upward into more greenish to bluish-weathering shale. Well developed salt hoppers evident. Abundant eurypterids. Stratigraphically overlies the Pittsford Bed. Intervening Salina strata probably ranges from >20 to <60 ft.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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