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Geologic Unit: Cottage City

Usage:

Cottage City Coral Beds of Jaycox Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures on Deep Run, north of Cottage City on the east side of Canandaigua Lake, Canandaigua Lake-Rushville quadrangles, Ontario Co., western NY (Mayer and others, 1994).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


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