Usage:
Ashley Hill Limestone Conglomerate (NY-recognized locally in "type area")
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type area:] at Ashley Hill, in northeastern corner of Chatham Twp., Columbia Co., about 1 mi north of Bayville or Rider's Mills Station on Lebanon Springs RR, and 2 mi south of Brainard, in Nassau, eastern NY (Dale, 1893).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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