Chittenango Falls State Park - Cazenovia

Chittenango Falls State Park - Cazenovia

Chittenango Falls State Park
Located in Madison County
Image courtesy of Sue Damanski

Type: Park (Public).

Features: The lip of the falls is a hard rock unit, the Edgecliff Member of the
Onondaga Formation, of lower Middle Devonian age.

Feature Type: Stratigraphic.

Reference: NYS Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, 76th Annual Meeting 2007; Comparative Sedimentology of the Helderberg Group in Central NY.

For online reference please visit - www.nysga.net/Guidebooks.html

Quadrangle: Cazenovia.

Reason for Designation: Identified as a site of geologic interest by the NYS Geological Highway Map (NYS Museum, NYS Geological Survey).