Genesee epoch

English

Proper noun

Genesee epoch

1. (geology) The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Genesee epoch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)