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  • Usage in publication:
    • Corning Member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Sorauf, J.E., and Roberson, H.E., 1963, Upper Devonian stratigraphy and sedimentology in the Binghamton area, IN Coates, D.R., ed., Geology of south-central New York; a guidebook with articles and field trip logs: New York State Geological Association Guidebook, 35th annual meeting, Binghamton, NY, May 3-4, 1963, no. 35, p. 87-95. [Available online from the New York Geological Association: http://www.nysgaonline.org/newpage2.htm]


Summary:

Pg. 90, 95 (fig. 4). About 5 feet of Corning Member exposed in Corbisello quarry at Binghamton. Consists of gray fissile shale. Underlies New Milford Formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 175).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Corning Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Siltstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Sutton, R.G., 1963, Stratigraphy in the Apalachin and Binghamton quadrangles, Appendix A OF Woodrow, D.L., and Nugent, R.C., Facies and the Rhinestreet Formation in south-central New York, IN Coates, D.R., ed., Geology of south-central New York; a guidebook with articles and field trip logs: New York State Geological Association Guidebook, 35th annual meeting, Binghamton, NY, May 3-4, 1963, no. 35, p. 77-78. [Available online from the New York Geological Association: http://www.nysgaonline.org/newpage2.htm]


Summary:

Pg. 77. Corning Member of Gardeau Formation. A sequence of very dark gray shales and thin-bedded gray siltstones about 40 feet thick. Present at top of formation. Underlies New Milford Formation. Type section stated. Name credited to Twigg (unpub. thesis 1961). Recognized in south-central New York. Age is Late Devonian.
Type section: cliff exposure south of New York Highway 17 at west edge of Corning (975 ft elevation) where Highway 17 bridges the railroad, central NY.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 174-175).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Corning Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Woodrow, D.L., 1963, Post-Rhinestreet stratigraphy in the Sayre and Towanda quadrangles, Pennsylvania; a progress report, IN Symposium on Middle and Upper Devonian stratigraphy of Pennsylvania and adjacent states: Pennsylvania Geological Survey Bulletin, 4th series, G-39, p. 79-85.


Summary:

Pg. 85. Geographically extended into northern Pennsylvania.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 175).


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