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Geologic Unit: Poughquag
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Poughquag Quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Sanders, J.E., 1995, Lower Paleozoic carbonate-clast diamictites; relationship to thrust sheets that advanced across the floor of the northern Appalachian Ordovician foreland basin: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 17, no. 1, p. 23-45.


Summary:

Poughquag is shown as basal formation of Wappinger Group, conformably underlying Stissing Dolomite and nonconformably overlying Precambrian basement. The Wappinger is assigned to the Sauk Sequence in this report. Age is Early Cambrian.

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


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