Usage:
Oriskany Formation (MD*,NJ*,PA*)
Oriskany Group (MD*,NJ,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Oriskany Member of Wildcat Valley Sandstone (TN)
Oriskany Sandstone (KY*,MD*,NY*,OH,PA*,VA*,WV*)
Oriskany Sandstone of Hunton Group (KY)
Oriskany Sandstone of Tristates Group (NY)
Subunits:
Glenerie Formation (NJ), Shriver Chert (WV*,PA*,MD*,NJ), and Ridgeley Sandstone (MD*,PA*,VA*,WV*,NJ) of Oriskany Group; Ridgeley Member (MD*,PA,VA,WV) of Oriskany Sandstone
Geologic age:
middle Early Devonian (Pragian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at Oriskany Falls, Oneida Co., central NY (Vanuxem, 1839).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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