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Geologic Unit: Sugar River
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Sugar River Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Kay, Marshall, 1968, Ordovician formations in northwestern New York: Le Naturaliste Canadien, v. 95, no. 6, p. 1373-1378.


Summary:

Thin-bedded, fossiliferous, shaly calcarenite and calcisiltite on Sugar River in Lewis Co., NY, here named Sugar River Limestone. 12 m thick at type section. Overlies Kings Fall Limestone and underlies Camp Member of Denley Limestone.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Sugar River Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Baird, G.C., Brett, C.E., and Lehmann, David, 1992, The Trenton-Utica problem revisited; new observations and ideas regarding Middle-Late Ordovician stratigraphy and depositional environments in central New York, IN April, R.H., ed., Field trip guidebook: New York State Geological Association Guidebook, 64th annual meeting, Hamilton, NY, September 18-20, 1992, no. 64, p. 1-40.


Summary:

Authors feel a refined, unified Trenton stratigraphy is essential. Applied here is a modified version of Kay's (1968) stratigraphic nomenclature. Rathbun Member occurs at the top of the Sugar River and underlies City Book bed (informal) of Poland Member of Denley Limestone. Rathbun overlies undifferentiated Sugar River consisting of shaly, wacke- to packstones. Massive upper Sugar River strata, probably correlative with the Rathbun Member, crop out in the Lowville area, 6i6 km northwest of Gravesville, though Chenoweth (1952) did not recognize the Rathbun in the Black River Valley.

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


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