Usage:
Pharaoh Mountain Gneiss of Piseco Group (NY)
Geologic age:
Proterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Pharaoh Mountain, on the east side of Schroon Lake, and in woods on the east side of the town road north from Adirondack toward Schroon Lake Village, Paradox Lake quadrangle, Essex Co., NY (Wiener and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift
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