Usage:
Indian River Slate (NY*,VT*)
Indian River Formation (NY)
Indian River Formation of Normanskill Group (NY)
Indian River Member of Normanskill Shale (NY)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (late Whiterockian to Mohawkian; late Chazyan to Turinian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Indian River, a few miles south of Granville, Washington Co., NY (Keith, 1932).Named from Indian River, a few miles south of Granville, Washington Co., NY (Keith, 1932).
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.
"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 ([ ]).