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Geologic Unit: Erie

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Erie Shale (OH) replaced with Chagrin Shale. See Chagrin.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Erie Group by Emmons (1842) and Erie Clay by Logan (1863) in Lake Erie area.]


Geologic age:

Late Devonian


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

Named from exposures on shores of Lake Erie from mouth of the Vermillion, [Erie Co.], to Dunkirk, [Hardin Co.], northern OH (Newberry, 1870).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch
Appalachian basin


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 ([ ]).