- Usage in publication:
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- Elmwood beds
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 26, 27-31. Elmwood beds. Underlies, with sharp contact, Clark Reservation limestone and grades into underlying Olney limestone, all included in Manlius group. Is divided into (descending): (1) Elmwood C, upper water lime, consisting of 4+/- feet of drab water lime usually very soft, barren in Onondaga County; (2) Elmwood B, bluish black limestone, which disappears to west; (3) Elmwood C, lower water lime, consisting of 6+/- feet of drab water lime nearly or quite barren, sometimes hard in lower part, but chiefly fairly soft. Age is Silurian [see 1935 entry under Manlius Limestone].
Type section: at Sweet's quarry, about 0.5 mi northeast of Onondaga Hill and in belt between St. Agnes Cemetery and Elmwood Park, Onondaga Co., central NY.
Source: US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 679-680; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2356-2357).
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