Oriskany Formation
geological formation in the United States
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. The Oriskany Sandstone extends throughout much of the Appalachian Basin.
The unit name usage by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the Oriskany Sandstone.
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.
Geographic extent
Appalachian Basin: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
Stratigraphic setting
Fossils
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in West Virginia
Interpretation of depositional environment
shallow marine
Economic resources
Oil, gas, glass sand
References
Further reading
"Oriskany Formation". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
"Oriskany Group including Ridgeley Sandstone and Shriver Chert". United States Geological Survey.
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