Usage:
Gailor Dolomite (NY)
Gailor Formation (NY)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Gailor quarry at northern edge of city of Saratoga Springs, one-eighth mi west of U.S. Highway 9, Saratoga Co., east-central NY (Fisher and Hanson, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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