Oakdale Syncline (Discarded)

Location

From east-central La Salle to south-central Livingston Counties

References

Willman and Payne 1942

Description

A subtle trough between the Dwight and Odell Anticlines was named the Oakdale Syncline. It was mapped from scattered well data on Cambrian and Ordovician strata. Willman and Payne (1942) had so few control points that the existence of all of these structures is considered questionable. The Bristol and Buschbach (1973) structure map of the Galena Group and the Kolata et al. (1983) map of the Franconia Formation do not show the Dwight, Odell, and Oakdale structures. Use of the name Oakdale Syncline should be discontinued.