The Oriskany Sandstone is a

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age

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found in eastern

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. The type locality of the unit is located at

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in New York. The Oriskany Sandstone extends throughout much of the

Appalachian Basin The geology of the Appalachians dates back to more than 480 million years ago. A look at rocks exposed in today's Appalachian Mountains reveals elongate belts of folded and thrust faulted marine sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks and slivers of ...

. 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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Geographic extent

Stratigraphic setting

Fossils

Interpretation of depositional environment

Economic resources

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