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Geologic Unit: Menteth

Usage:

Menteth Formation (NY)
Menteth Limestone of Hamilton Group (NY)
Menteth Limestone Member of Moscow Formation (NY*)
Menteth Limestone Member of Moscow Shale (NY*,MD*,PA*)


Geologic age:

late Middle Devonian (Givetian)*


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

Forms first falls at Tichenor Point and Menteth Point, on Canandaigua Lake, Ontario Co., NY (Clarke and Luther 1904).


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 ([ ]).