Usage:
Poplar Hill Gneiss of Oswegatchie Group (NY)
Poplar Hill Gneiss (NY)
Misspelled Popple Hill in some reports.
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Roadcut on Route 58 and exposures on adjacent Poplar Hill, 2.4 km W of Emeryville, between Balmat and Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., NY (Wiener and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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