Usage:
Oswegatchie Group (NY)
Subunits:
(ascending) Baldface Hill Gneiss, Poplar Hill Gniess, Gouverneur Marble and Cranberry Lake Formation (correlatives), and Pleasant Lake Gneiss (NY)
Geologic age:
Proterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along Oswegatchie River, St. Lawrence and Jefferson Cos., northern NY (Smyth, 1894).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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