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Geologic Units: Kuyahoora
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Kuyahoora till
  • Modifications:
    • Informally named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Till
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Muller, E.H., Franzi, D.A., and Ridge, J.C., 1986, Pleistocene geology of the western Mohawk Valley, New York, IN Cadwell, D.H., ed., The Wisconsinan Stage of the first geological district, eastern New York: New York State Museum Bulletin, no. 455, p. 143-157.


Summary:

Loose, gray to yellow-brown, sandy, stony diamicton in the Hinckley, Ohio, North Wilmurt, and Middleville quads, eastern NY, here named Kuyahoora till. Extends northwestward from north end of Dairy Hill to Sand Hill. Deposited during more than one glaciation. Described as a lithofacies, not a single till sheet. Adirondack provenance. Unconformably underlies Norway till (first used) in the upper West Canada Valley.

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


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