Usage:
Beech Member of Valcour Formation of Chazy Group (NY,VT)
[Use of Chazy as a lithostratigraphic term (Chazy Group) should be discontinued. It is more widely used as a North American provincial chronostratigraphic term (Chazyan Stage).]
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Whiterockian; late Chazyan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Along Beech Bay, South Hero, Grand Isle Co., VT (Oxley and Kay, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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