Usage:
Salmon Creek Phosphate Bed of Rockway Dolomite (NY*)
Salmon Creek Bed of Dawes Formation (NY)
Geologic age:
early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Salmon Creek West, 50 m south of NY Route 104, town of Williamson, Wayne Co., western NY (Lin and Brett, 1988).
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 ([ ]).