Usage:
Bear Creek Shale of Clinton Group (NY)
Subunits:
Sterling Station Bed (NY).
Geologic age:
early Silurian (Llandovery)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: town of Wolcott, Wayne Co., central NY. Exposed on small tributary of Black Creek which is known locally as Bear Creek; tributary enters Black Creek a little north of where southwest road from Fair Haven crosses Black Creek (Gillette, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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