West Castleton Formation

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

It is described in Vermont as "Gray silicious to black, graphitic, pyritiferous slate and phyllite, locally with interbedded thin dark grey dolostone and grey quartzite and arkosic layers. Thin, white sandy laminae commonly found in the graphitic beds."Stratigraphy and Structure of a Portion of the Castleton Quadrangle, Vermont, by E-an Zen, Bulletin 25, Vermont Geological Survey, 1964. Map Scale: 1:62,500.

Type Section The type section is a roadcut along Scotch Hill Road, south of West Castleton, Vermont.West Castleton, National Geologic Map Database, Geolex — Unit SummaryStratigraphy and structure at the north end of the Taconic Range in west-central Vermont, Zen, E-an, 1961. Geological Society of America Bulletin v.72, n.2 (p. 293)

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New York

References