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  • Usage in publication:
    • Halcyon Lake Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Ratcliffe, N.M., and Burton, W.C., 1990, Bedrock geologic map of the Poughquag quadrangle, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1662, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_440.htm]


Summary:

Halcyon Lake Formation is here assigned to the Wappinger Group. Overlies the Briarcliff Dolomite and underlies the Rochdale Formation, both of the Wappinger.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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