Usage:
/Elma submember [informal] of Ledyard Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)
[Elma submember considered informal until formally published in accord with NACSN (2021). The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.]
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along Buffalo Creek, Elma Twp., Orchard Park and East Aurora 7.5-min quadrangles, Erie Co., west-central NY (McCollum, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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