Usage:
Sugar River Limestone of Trenton Group (NY)
Subunits:
Rathbun Member (NY).
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Palisades on Sugar River, from lower contact above rippled ledge at top of main fall above New York Central RR bridge, to upper contact with Denley Limestone type section 0.4 km above bridge, Leyden Twp., Lewis Co., north-central NY (Kay, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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