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Geologic Unit: Spring Brook

Usage:

/Spring Brook submember [informal] of Wanakah Member of Ludlowville Formation (NY)

[Spring Brook submember considered informal until formally published in accord with NACSN (2021). The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.]


Geologic age:

Middle Devonian


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

Along Lackawanna RR tracks, 3.5 mi west of village of East Bethany, Batavia quadrangle, western NY (Sutton, 1951).


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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