Usage:
Steuben Limestone of Trenton Group (NY)
Steuben Limestone Member of Cobourg Formation of Trenton Group (NY?,Canada)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed in small quarries and along streams south of road south of Steuben Creek for a mi from its mouth. Named from creek where exposed above dam at Prospect Bridge, Oneida Co., east-central NY (Kay, 1943).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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