Usage:
/Newport Beds of Middleville Formation (NY)
(†Newport Beds not used by the USGS.)
[Name preempted (e.g., by †Newport Conglomerate by Hitchcock (1861) in RI, Newport Shales and Sandstones by Platt (1881) in PA, Newport Limestone by Lesley (1892) in PA, Newport Granite by Richardson (1908) in VT).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Newport, Herkimer Co., east-central NY. Exposed along southwestern shore of Hinckley Reservoir (Ridge and others, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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