Usage:
Sherman Fall Formation of Trenton Group (NY)
(See also Shermanian Stage.)
Subunits:
Shoreham Member (NY).
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Sherman Fall, in Trenton Falls Gorge of West Canada Creek, Oneida Co., central NY (Kay, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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