Usage:
Whitehall Formation (NY*)
Whitehall Formation of Beekmantown Group (NY,VT)
Whitehall Dolostone of Beekmantown Group (VT)
Geologic age:
Cambrian, Late*
Ordovician, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: On Skene Mountain, which rises out of village of Whitehall, Washington Co., east-central NY (Rodgers, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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 ([ ]).