Depue Limestone Member of Coeymans Formation of Helderberg Group (NJ*,PA*)
Early Devonian*
Type section: in cut along northwest side of road, 0.6 mi southwest of Shawnee on Delaware, in southwest corner of Bushkill 7.5-min quadrangle [approx. Lat. 41 deg. 0.5 min. N., Long. 75 deg. 6.92 min. W., Monroe Co., PA (A.G. Harris, written commun., ca. 1995)]. Named from Depue Island in the Delaware River, [east of Shawnee on Delaware], in Monroe Co., PA (Epstein and others, 1967).
Appalachian basin*
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