Usage:
Gowanda Shale of Canadaway Group (NY)
Gowanda Shale Member of Perrysburg Formation (NY*)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian (Famennian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along Walnut Creek, in vicinity of Forestville, western NY (Tesmer, 1955; also described by J.F. Pepper and Wallace de Witt, Jr., 1951, USGS Oil and Gas Investigations Chart OC-45).
Named from exposures in vicinity of Gowanda, Cattaraugus Co., western NY (Chadwick, 1919).
AAPG geologic province:
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 ([ ]).