- Usage in publication:
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- Jamesville limestone
- 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, 30-31. Jamesville limestone. Rather dark-blue limestone replete with stromatoporoids and corals. Thickness 0 to 29 feet. Best seen in east part of Onondaga County. In west part of county thickness is reduced by erosion. Included in Manlius group. Conformably underlies Pools Brook limestone and overlies, with sharp contact, Clark Reservation limestone. Included in Manlius in Vanuxem's 1842 report (p. 115). Has been classed as Helderbergian, or probably Helderbergian, by some authors. Age is considered Silurian [see 1935 entry under Manlius Limestone].
Type section: at "Green Lake" State Park (Clark Reservation), west of Jamesville. Named from Jamesville, town of De Witt, Onondaga Co., central NY.
Source: US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, p. 1040; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2356-2357).
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