The Oriskany Sandstone is a
Middle Devonian age
unit of
sedimentary rock found in eastern
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
. The type locality of the unit is located at
Oriskany Falls
Oriskany Falls is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 732 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a waterfall on a nearby stream.
The Village of Oriskany Falls is in the southeast section of the Town of Au ...
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.
[Butts, C., 1940, Geology of the Appalachian Valley in Virginia: Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin 52, pt. 1, 568p.]
Geographic extent
Appalachian Basin: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
Stratigraphic setting
Fossils
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in West Virginia
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of West Virginia, U.S.
Sites
See also
* Paleontology in West Virginia
References
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Interpretation of depositional environment
shallow marine
Economic resources
Oil, gas, glass sand
References
Further reading
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Devonian West Virginia
Devonian geology of New York (state)
Devonian geology of Virginia
Eifelian Stage
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits
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