Usage:
Kings Falls Limestone (NY*)
Kings Falls Limestone of Trenton Group (NY)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician*
Champlainian*
Kirkfieldian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: base to top of Kings Falls on Deer River, 3 km west of Deer River Village, Denmark Twp., Lewis Co., north-central MY (Kay, 1968).
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.
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