Usage:
Shawsheen Gneiss (MA*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Proterozoic, Late*
Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Belt along northwest side of Shawsheen River, Billerica and Wilmington quads, and in Harold Parker State Forest, Reading quadrangle, Middlesex Co., northeastern MA (Bell and Alvord, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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