Usage:
Smoke Creek Bed of Windom Shale Member of Moscow Formation (NY)
Geologic age:
late Middle Devonian (Givetian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Exposures on the bank of the south branch of Smoke Creek, 0.25 mi south of Mile Strip Road at Windom, (Windom Shale Member type section), Buffalo SE 7.5-min quadrangle, Erie Co., NY (Baird and Brett, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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