Usage:
Pond Brook interval (informal) of /Elma submember [informal] of Ledyard Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Elma submember considered informal until formally publishedd in accord with NACSN (2021). The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.]
Subunits:
informal Mount Vernon beds (NY).
Geologic age:
Middle Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from north-flowing tributary of Buffalo Creek in Elma Twp., Erie Co., west-central NY (McCollum, 1991).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).