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.
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