Usage:
Basher Kill Tongue of Bloomsburg Red Beds (NY*)
Geologic age:
late Silurian (Ludlow to Pridoli)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along NY Route 17 near Wurtsboro, Sullivan Co., NY. Named from Basher Kill, 1,000 ft north of type section (Epstein, 1993).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).