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  • Usage in publication:
    • Pools Brook limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Smith, Burnett, 1929, Influence of erosion intervals of the Manlius-Helderberg series of Onondaga County, New York: New York State Museum Bulletin, no. 281, p. 25-36.


Summary:

Pg. 27, 31. Pools Brook limestone. Laminated dark-blue limestone that weathers bluish white. Occurs in eastern part of Onondaga County. At Manlius may be 30 feet thick. Is usually capped by basal quartz sandstone of Onondaga, but for short distance east of Manlius it is unconformably overlain by Bishop Brook limestone. Conformably overlies Jamesville limestone, which has been included in Helderbergian by some authors, but is here included in Manlius. Is next to top formation of Manlius group.
Named for Pools Brook Valley, along whose southern rim it is exposed.

Source: US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1699; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2356-2357).


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