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Geologic Unit: Erie
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Erie shale
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Newberry, J.S., 1870, The Geological Survey of Ohio, its progress in 1869, IN Report of an address delivered to the legislature of Ohio, Part I, IN Report of progress in 1869: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Progress, 2nd series, p. 1-54.


Summary:

Pg. 20. Erie shale. Bluish or greenish shales, 400 feet thick in northern Ohio; absent in central Ohio. Topmost formation of Devonian in northern Ohio. Overlain by black bituminous Cleveland shale and underlain by Huron shale.
Named from exposures on shores of Lake Erie from mouth of the Vermillion, [Erie Co.], to Dunkirk, [Hardin Co.], northern OH.
[GNC remark (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 696): †Erie shale. Name preoccupied. Replaced by Chagrin shale. See entry under Prosser, 1903 (Jour. Geol., v. 11, p. 521).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 696).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Erian series
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Cooper, G.A. (chairman), 1942, Correlation of the Devonian sedimentary formations of North America; [Chart No. 4]: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 53, no. 12, pt. 1, p. 1729-1793.


Summary:

Erian series, Middle Devonian. Comprises (ascending) Cazenovia, Tioughnioga, and Taghanic (Taughannock) stages. Follows Ulsterian series and precedes Senecan series.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 694-695).


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