Day Point Formation of Chazy Group (NY*,VT*)
Day Point Limestone of Chazy Group (NY*,VT*)
Day Point Formation (NY*,VT*)
Day Point Limestone (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).]
(alphabetical): Fleury Member (NY,VT), [?]Head Member (VT), Scott Member (NY,VT), Ste. Therese Member (NY,VT?), Wait Member (VT).
Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian; early Chazyan)*
Well exposed at Day Point, Peru Twp., Clinton Co., NY (Cushing, 1905).
Appalachian basin*
New England province
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