- Usage in publication:
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- Dusenberry Hill Quartzite
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Quartzite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Dusenberry Hill Quartzite. A regionally extensive orthoquartzite, 10 to 20 feet thick. Lies about 400 to 800 feet above Curtis Mountain Quartzite. To west, the Dusenberry Hill is interbedded with black quartzite in gray-green silty Mettawee Argillite and is stratigraphically very close to overlying West Castleton black shale which also interbeds of black quartzite. Recognized in New York. Age is Cambrian.
Nassau quadrangle, Rensselaer Co., NY. Derivation of name not stated.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 228).
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