Neid Road Quarry (abandoned) - Le Roy
Le Roy Quarry - Neid Road
Located in Genesee County
Image courtesy of Dr. J. Bret Bennington
Type: Quarry (inactive).
Features: Upper Silurian strata: Prominent knobby pinnacles and undercut cavities through the fine-grained dolostones; Bois Blanc; Basal Onondaga unit.
Feature Type: Stratigraphic.
Reference: NYS Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, 72nd Annual Meeting 2000;
Anatomy of a Composite Sequence Boundary: The Silurian-Devonian Contact in Western NYS.
For online reference please visit - http://www.nysga-online.net/guidebooks/
Reason for Designation: Walk across a 490 million year-old fossil (stromatolites) sea floor;
Domed Cyanobacterial Cabbage-head Stromatolites: Hoyt Limestone of Late Cambrian Age.