- Usage in publication:
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- Fiddler's Green limestone
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Fiddler's Green limestone. Thin-bedded dolomitic limestone, 20 to 40 feet thick, occurring in upper part (25 to 63 feet below top) of Camillus beds or group in Syracuse quadrangle, New York. Age is Silurian.
[According to lexicon (USGS Bull. 896), this name has been abandoned (reference not given). According to succeeding lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200), Fiddlers Green limestone apparently redefined as Fiddlers Green dolomite (reference not given).]
Source: US geologic names lexicon, (USGS Bull. 896, p. 730).
- Usage in publication:
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- Fiddlers Green Formation
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- Overview
- Dominant lithology:
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- Dolomite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
In the type area north of Jamesville, NY, the Fiddlers Green Formation of the Bertie Group is about 10 m thick and consists of an upper eurypterid-bearing member, the Phelps Waterlime Member, (believed to be continuous with the type Phelps of western NY), a middle predominantly dolomitic member, the Victor Member, and a lower waterlime, the Morganville Waterlime Member. In western NY and on the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, the Fiddlers Green includes as its uppermost unit, a brecciated waterlime, the Ellicott Creek Breccia Member. Upper Silurian Fiddlers Green underlies the Scajaquada Formation and overlies the Oatka Formation.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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