Usage:
Curtice Road bed (informal) of Moscow Formation (NY)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
late Middle Devonian (Givetian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along Curtice Road just north of Menteth Gully west of Canandaigua Lake, central NY (Brett and Baird, 1994).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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