The Vernon Formation is a geologic formation in the Appalachian Basin. It is the lowest unit of the Salina Group. It is made up of red and green shales...
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Salina Group (redirect from Wabash Formation)
consists of dolomite and shaly dolomite, and is the bottom of the Vernon. Where the formation thickens, there may also be one or two large salt beds within...
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Muscatatuck Group (redirect from North Vernon Formation)
Indiana where it underlies the Antrim Shale. The North Vernon Limestone is a geologic formation in Indiana. Also called the Sellersburg Limestone, this...
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Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War...
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Lockport Group (redirect from Lockport Formation)
occasional chert nodules. The Guelph Formation is at the top of the Lockport Group. It has been called the "Vernon Transition Zone" due to thin beds and...
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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough...
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Knox Supergroup (redirect from Chepultepec Formation)
The Knox Supergroup, also known as the Knox Group and the Knox Formation, is a widespread geologic group in the Southeastern United States. The age is...
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The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive...
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The Rhinestreet Shale is a geologic formation in the Appalachian Basin. It dates back to the Devonian period. The Rhinestreet is an organic or Black Shale...
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The Monongahela Formation is a geologic formation in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland. It is dated to the Carboniferous period. The top...
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The Tully Formation is a geologic unit in the Appalachian Basin. The Tully was deposited as a carbonate rich mud, in a shallow sea at the end of the Middle...
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Bertie Limestone, also referred to as the Bertie Dolomite and the Bertie Formation, is an upper Silurian (Pridoli, or Cayugan) geologic group and Lagerstätte...
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The Devonian Catskill Formation or the Catskill Clastic Wedge is a unit of mostly terrestrial sedimentary rock found in Pennsylvania and New York. Minor...
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apfeli from the Syracuse and Vernon Formations of New York and Ontario and W. cumberlandicus from the Wills Creek Formation, West Virginia. Fossils of the...
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West Falls Group (redirect from West Falls Formation)
the Portage Group. The West Falls formation is bounded above by the Java Formation and below by the Sonyea Formation. It comprises the Angola Shale and...
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Onondaga Limestone (redirect from Onondaga (geological formation))
it outcrops; in others, especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as a local surface feature.[citation needed] In...
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Rudolf Ruedemann described the species Hughmilleria phelpsae from the Vernon Formation of the New York state. Ruedemann noted several differences between...
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Pterygotus (category Bertie Formation)
Pterygotus. In 1921, Ruedemann described an eurypterid fauna from the Vernon Formation of Pittsford, New York. Among them, the species P. vernonensis was...
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Syracuse Formation is a geologic formation in the Appalachian Basin. It is the main salt bearing formation of the Salina Group. This formation depending...
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The Genesee Formation (Group) is a geologic formation in New York. It is equivalent the Harrell Shale in Pennsylvania. It dates back to the Upper Devonian...
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The limestones found with in the formation are exclusively freshwater deposits. Berryhill, Henry L. Jr.; Swanson, Vernon E. (1962). "Geological Survey research...
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The Lock Haven Formation is a Devonian mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. The Lock Haven is gray...
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Vernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, California, the nearest separate city to downtown Los Angeles. The population was 112...
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Hampshire Group (redirect from Hampshire Formation)
The Hampshire Formation is a geologic formation in West Virginia, USA. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal...
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created based on fossils discovered in the Pittsford Shale Member of the Vernon Formation. Its describer, the American geologist Clifton J. Sarle, considered...
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The Ordovician Bellefonte Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in central Pennsylvania. It is the uppermost unit of the Beekmantown Group. The top of the...
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The Bass Islands Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. Michigan portal Paleontology...
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The Oswayo Formation is a geologic formation in New York. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal New York (state)...
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The Kinzers Formation is a geologic formation in Pennsylvania. It preserves fossils dating back to the fourth stage of the Cambrian Period. The base of...
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recovered for the first time in the Pittsford Shale Member of the Vernon Formation. The generic name derives from Hugh Miller, a Scottish geologist and...
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