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Geologic Unit: White Creek

Usage:

/White Creek Diamicton of Middleville Formation (NY)

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Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Along White Creek (secs 144-149, fig. 2), near its confluence with West Canada Creek, just north of Middleville, Herkimer Co., east-central NY (Ridge and others, 1991).


AAPG geologic province:

Adirondack uplift


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