Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Otisville Shale (NY) or †Otisville Shale Member of the Shawangunk Formation (NY) reallocated to middle unit of the Shawangunk Formation. See Shawangunk.)
Geologic age:
Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Otisville, Orange Co., NY (Swartz and Swartz, 1931).
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.
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