The Middle Ordovician Section at Crown Point Peninsula, New York
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The Chazy, Black River and Trenton Groups are a well studied sequence of fossiliferous limestones, dolostones and sandstones in the Champlain Valley of New York, Vermont and southern Quebec. These rocks record shallow water cyclic sedimentation in the foreland basin of Laurentia prior to and during the initial stages of the Taconic Orogeny. This field trip reviews the stratigraphy of these units, as well as the evidence for reconstructing depositional environments and cyclic sea level changes.
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Middle Ordovician Section at Crown Point Peninsula
All the stops for this trip are within the Crown Point Reservation State Historic Site. From the west, take NY Route 22 north from Ticonderoga, continuing north through the Village of Crown Point. Turn east approximately five miles north of the Village of Crown Point, following signs to the 'Bridge to Vermont'. From the east, take VT Route 22A north from Fairhaven, or south from Burlington area...
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