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Oriskany Formation

Geological formation in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Oriskany Sandstone is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. The type locality of the unit is located at Oriskany Falls in New York.[1] The Oriskany Sandstone extends throughout much of the Appalachian Basin.[2][3][4]

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The unit name usage by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the Oriskany Sandstone.[5] Butts (1940) stated that the Oriskany Sandstone "corresponds exactly with the Ridgely Sandstone" and that the rules of stratigraphic nomenclature dictate that the name Oriskany Sandstone should be applied to these strata.[6]

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Geographic extent

Appalachian Basin: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky

Stratigraphic setting

Fossils

Interpretation of depositional environment

shallow marine

Economic resources

Oil, gas, glass sand

References

Further reading

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