Usage:
Fort Edward Dolostone Member of Great Meadow Formation (NY,VT)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Bushlea Farm, north of NY Highway 149 and 1.6 km east of Smiths Basin on Champlain Canal, Hartford quadrangle, Washington Co., NY. Named from village of Fort Edward, 16 km southwest of type locality (Fisher, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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