BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 4, pp. 91-118 February 21, 1893 



THE THICKNESS OF THE DEVONIAN AND SILURIAN ROCKS 



OF CENTRAL NEW YORK 



BY CHARLES S. PROSSKR 



(Presented before the Society August 16, 1892) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction ill 



Records of the Wells 92 



Binghamton Well and Section 92 



Norwich Well and Section 94 



Morrisville Well and Section 95 



Chittenango Well and Sect ion 97 



Utica (Globe Woolen Mills) Well and Section 100 



Campbell Well and Section 101 



Syracuse (State) Well and Section 101 



Greenpoint (Gale) Well and Section 103 



Tully Well Number 2, 1) Group and Section 104 



Fulton Well and Section 105 



Sandy Creek Well Number 4 and Section 100 



Watertown Well and Section 107 



General geologic Section of central New York 108 



Composite Section 108 



Review of I >ata used 108 



Generalized geologic Secti< >n 110 



Review of Authorities 110 



Comparative Sections of eastern, central and western New York 118 



Introduction. 



The discovery in commercial quantities of natural gas and oil in the 

 Trenton limestones of Ohio and Indiana led to the drilling of numerous 

 test-wells in other states that were underlain by this formation. The 

 attention of prospectors was early directed to New York state as a promis- 

 ing field, and in the spring of 1887 a test-well was drilled in central New 



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