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Geologic Unit: Hills Gulch

Usage:

Hills Gulch Bed of Jaycox Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures on Hill's Gulch ravine, 360 m south of junction of U.S. Route 20 and the former Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western RR, Le Roy quadrangle, Genesee Co., western NY (Kloc, 1983).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


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