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Geologic Unit: Spezzano Gully

Usage:

Spezzano Gully beds (informal) of Windom Member of Moscow Formation (NY)

Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

late Middle Devonian (Givetian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures along Spezzano Gully near the town of Retsof, western NY (Brett and Baird, 1994).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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