Usage:
Wappinger Group (NY*)
Wappinger Limestone (NY)
Subunits:
Poughquag Quartzite (NY), Stissing Dolomite (NY*), Pine Plains Formation (NY*), Briarcliff Limestone (NY*), Halcyon Lake Formation (NY*), Rochdale Limestone (NY*), Copake Formation
Geologic age:
Ordovician, Early*
Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Wappinger Creek, Dutchess Co., southeastern NY.
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
Appalachian basin
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 ([ ]).