CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Valcour Formation

geologic formation in New York and Vermont, United States

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ18357986 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Valcour Formation is a geologic formation in New York and Vermont. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New York

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Valcour Formation” as geologic formation in New York and Vermont, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Valcour, Formation and geologic.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Valcour, Formation and geologic providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Valcour Formation”, the useful work is to connect “geologic formation in New York and Vermont, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18357986. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2021.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Valcour Formation”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Valcour Formation primary sources, Valcour Formation archive and Valcour research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Valcour Formation”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Valcour Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.