Usage:
South Wales Shale of Canadaway Group (NY)
South Wales Shale (PA)
South Wales Member of Perrysburg Formation (NY*)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian (Famennian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on unnamed tributary off east branch of Cazenovia Creek, 3 mi south of South Wales, Erie Co., western NY (Pepper and de Witt, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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