- Usage in publication:
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- Murder Creek Bed
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Murder Creek Bed, introduced by Kloc (1983), lies above the Fargo Bed (also of Kloc, 1983). Unit is described as a widely traceable prominent diagenetic carbonate bed containing abundant trilobites. Brachiopods also abundant. Both beds and several others lie within the Darien Center Submember of the Wanakah Shale Member of the Ludlowville Formation in western NY. Above the Murder Creek is the Bidwell Bed, uppermost bed of the Darrien Center. Age of the Wanakah is Middle Devonian.
["Submember" not recognized as a formal stratigraphic rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005). Considered informal until formally published. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.]
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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