Usage:
Ticonderoga Formation (NY*,VT)
Ticonderoga Dolostone (NY,VT)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on east face of Mount Hope [see Ticonderoga 15-minute quadrangle (pre-1950 ed.) for location] within the northern boundary of village of Ticonderoga, from 0.5 to 1 mi due north of the paper mill [no longer exists]. Top of section in woods northeast of north end of Mount Hope Cemetery [see Ticonderoga 7.5-minute quadrangle, 1950 ed.], eastern Essex Co., northeastern NY. Named credited to John Rodgers, 1955 unpub. ms. (Welby, 1959, 1961).
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.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).