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Geologic Units: Rome
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Rome till
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • 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:

Red till, here named the Rome till, records the last readvance (Stanwix Readvance) of the Oneida Sublobe. Unit is present in a few places in the South Trenton quad and westward along the south margin of the Ontario Lake plain in the lower West Canada and Mohawk Valleys of eastern NY. Deposited over Holland Patent till (Antonetti, 1982 M.S. thesis) during the Port Huron stade.

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


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