Usage:
Stark Complex (NY*)
Stark Plutonic Suite (NY)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: from Santa Clara extending to the southwest, Franklin Co., northwestern NY. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from town of Stark (Buddington, 1948).
AAPG geologic province:
Adirondack uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).