Usage:
Middleville Formation (NY)
Subunits:
White Creek Diamicton [Member], Newport Beds, and West Canada Diamicton [Member]
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Wisconsinan
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from town of Middleville, Herkimer Co., east-central NY (Ridge and others, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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