Usage:
Rhinestreet Formation (NY)
Rhinestreet Formation of West Falls Group (PA)
Rhinestreet Shale of West Falls Group (NY)
Rhinestreet Shale Bed of Dowelltown Member of Chattanooga Shale (TN*)
Rhinestreet Shale Member of West Falls Formation (KY*,NY*,OH*,PA*,TN*,VA*,WV*)
Rhinestreet Shale Member of Chattanooga Shale (KY,VA)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in NY, PA: Beers Hill Member, Dunn Hill Member, Millport Member, Moreland Member, Roricks Glen Member.
Geologic age:
Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along Rhinestreet north from Naples, Ontario Co., NY.
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 ([ ]).