Usage:
Shawangunk Conglomerate (NY*,NJ*)
Shawangunk Formation (NY*,NJ*,PA*)
Subunits:
Weiders (PA*), Minsi (NJ*,PA*), Lizard Creek (NJ*,PA*), and Tammany (NJ*,PA*) Members; Ellenville (NY*,NJ*) and High View (NY*) Tongues
Geologic age:
Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Shawangunk Mountain, Ulster Co., NY (Mather, 1840).
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.
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