Usage:
Berne Member of Marcellus Shale (NY)
Berne Member of Mount Marion Formation (NY)
Subunits:
Dave Elliott Bed (NY).
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section in hill south of Berne, in Berne-Durham quadrangle, eastern NY, where member is 280 feet thick. [Named from town of Berne, Albany Co., eastern NY.] (Cooper, 1933).
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.
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