Usage:
No current usage.
(†Brooklyn Gneiss (NY) replaced with Hartland Formation (in east Bronx and Queens area), Ravenswood Granodiorite (in Queens, Kings, and lower East Manhattan area), and Fordham Gneiss. See Hartland, Ravenswood, and Fordham.)
Geologic age:
early Paleozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Occurs in New York City, NY (Emerson, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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