Usage:
No current usage?
(†Albany Clay (NY,VT), also informally called †Lake Albany clays, considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the NY and VT Geol. Surveys. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures at Albany, east-central NY (Emmons, 1846).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
New England province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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