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Geologic Unit: Athol Springs

Usage:

Athol Springs limestone bed (informal) of /Winspear submember [informal] of Ledyard Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)

Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Winspear submember considered considered informal until formally published in accord with NACSN (2021). The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.]


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: top of a wave-cut cliff on Lake Erie shore, just south of Athol Springs and west of the intersection of NY Highways 5 and 75, Buffalo SE 7.5-min quadrangle, Erie Co., west-central NY (McCollum, 1991).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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