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Geologic Unit: Westmoreland
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Westmoreland Hematite
  • Modifications:
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Lin, Bea-Yeh, and Brett, C.E., 1988, Stratigraphy and disconformable contacts of the Williamson-Willowvale interval; revised correlations of the late Llandoverian (Silurian) in New York State: Northeastern Geology, v. 10, no. 3, p. 241-253.


Summary:

New biostratigraphic data suggest that unit is the same age (late Llandoverian) as the overlying Willowvale Shale and is zonally distinct from the underlying Sauquoit Shale. Westmoreland is laterally equivalent to Second Creek Bed, a new name for a phosphatic quartz pebble bed with abundant pyrite at the base of the Williamson Shale.

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


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