Glens Falls Limestone (VTOgf;0)

Glens Falls Limestone

Dark-bluish-gray-weathering, thinly bedded dark-gray to black granular limestone; locally grades upward into sooty- weathering shaly limestone beds rich in fragments of the trilobite Cryptolithus. Rocks of the Laurentian Margin. Part of the Adirondack lowlands and Lake Champlain lowlands (west of the Orwell and Champlain thrusts). Also part of the Vermont Valley sequence and Middlebury synclinorium (above the Orwell and Champlain thrusts).

State	Vermont
Name	Glens Falls Limestone
Geologic age	Upper Ordovician
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)Dark-bluish-gray-weathering, thinly bedded dark-gray to black granular limestone; locally grades upward into sooty- weathering shaly limestone beds rich in fragments of the trilobite Cryptolithus.
References	Ratcliffe, N.M., Stanley, R.S., Gale., M.H., Thompson, P.J., and Walsh, G.J., 2011, Bedrock geologic map of Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3184, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3184
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 96860
Counties	Addison - Chittenden - Franklin - Grand Isle - Rutland

Glens Falls Limestone

Ratcliffe, N.M., Stanley, R.S., Gale., M.H., Thompson, P.J., and Walsh, G.J., 2011, Bedrock geologic map of Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3184, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000.