Usage:
Poultney Formation (NY*,VT*)
Poultney Slate (NY,VT)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NY,VT: Owl Kill Member, White Creek Member.
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician (Ibexian to Whiterockian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in town of Poultney, Rutland Co., southwestern VT, near NY-VT State line, 7 mi southwest of
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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