Name should only be used as a rock-stratigraphic term. Although the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature does allow for the time-stratigraphic term, Chazyan, to be used, this practice should be discouraged because it leads to ambiguity. The stage name Montyan is suggested instead of Chazyan.

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

Paleozoic cover sequence adjacent to Adirondack massif in western part of Glens Falls quad consists of (ascending): Late Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone, Late Cambrian Ticonderoga Formation, Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Beekmantown Group (with Whitehall Formation at base), early Middle Ordovician Chazy Group, Middle Ordovician Black River and Trenton Groups, and Mohawk Valley shales (Canajoharie Shale and Snake Hill Formation). Potsdam and Ticonderoga are partly correlative with Danby Formation of Middlebury synclinorium in VT. Beekmantown and part of Chazy correlate directly with limestones and dolomites above Danby. Paleozoic cover sequence is interpreted as a platform sequence. [Text states Beekmantown "as used by Fisher (1984)", but this appears to be an error because Fisher (1984) included Potsdam and Ticonderoga in his Beekmantown. Fisher (1977) abandoned Canajoharie but USGS still recognizes it.]

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