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Becraft Formation, the Glossary

The Becraft Formation is a geologic formation of marine sedimentary rock found in New York State.^[1]

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Devonian System of North America
Devonian United States
Geologic formations of New York (state)
Lochkovian Stage

Acadian orogeny

The Acadian orogeny is a long-lasting mountain building event which began in the Middle Devonian, reaching a climax in the Late Devonian.

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Albany County, New York

Albany County is a county in the state of New York, United States.

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.

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Anticline

In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline.

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Brachiopod

Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.

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Canajoharie, New York

Canajoharie is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Carbon sequestration

Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.

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Carbonate platform

A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Columbia County, New York

Columbia County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Crinoid

Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea.

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In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.

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Dunham classification

The Dunham classification system for carbonate sedimentary rocks was originally devised by Robert J. Dunham (1924–1994) in 1962, and subsequently modified by Embry and Klovan in 1971 to include coarse-grained limestones and sediments that had been organically bound at the time of deposition.

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Early Devonian

The Early Devonian is the first of three epochs comprising the Devonian period, corresponding to the Lower Devonian series.

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Foreland basin

A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Geology of the Appalachians

The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent Rodinia, 500 million years prior to the development of the range during the formation of Pangea.

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Grainstone

Under the Dunham classification (Dunham, 1962) system of limestones, a grainstone is defined as a grain-supported carbonate rock that contains less than 1% mud-grade material.

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Helderberg Escarpment

The Helderberg Escarpment, also known as the Helderberg Mountains, is an escarpment in eastern New York, United States, roughly west of the city of Albany.

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Helderberg Group (geology)

The Helderberg Group is a geologic group that outcrops in the State New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia.

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Hudson Valley

The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York.

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Invertebrate paleontology

Invertebrate paleontology (also spelled invertebrate palaeontology) is sometimes described as invertebrate paleozoology or invertebrate paleobiology.

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Kingston, New York

Kingston is the only city in, and the county seat of, Ulster County, New York, United States.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of types of limestone

This article lists types of limestone arranged according to generic type and location.

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Lochkovian

The Lochkovian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch.

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Middle Devonian

In the geological timescale, the Middle Devonian epoch (from 397.5 ± 2.7 million years ago to 385.3 ± 2.6 million years ago) occurred during the Devonian period, after the end of the Emsian age.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Passive margin

A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.

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Schoharie County, New York

Schoharie County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Taconic orogeny

The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago (Ma) and affected most of modern-day New England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becraft_Formation

Becraft Formation, the Glossary

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See also

Devonian System of North America

Devonian United States

Geologic formations of New York (state)

Lochkovian Stage

References