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Geologic Unit: Day Point

Usage:

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).]


Subunits:

(alphabetical): Fleury Member (NY,VT), [?]Head Member (VT), Scott Member (NY,VT), Ste. Therese Member (NY,VT?), Wait Member (VT).


Geologic age:

Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian; early Chazyan)*


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

Well exposed at Day Point, Peru Twp., Clinton Co., NY (Cushing, 1905).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin*
New England province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).