Usage:
Fort Ann Formation of Beekmantown Group (NY)
Fort Ann Limestone Member of Great Meadows Formation (NY)
Fort Ann Member of Tribes Hill Limestone (NY)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated, but probably named from occurrence at Fort Ann, Washington Co., east-central NY (Wheeler, 1941 [abs.], 1942).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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