Usage:
Coal Mine Brook Formation (MA*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality (composite): exposure near Franklin and Shrewsbury Streets, and the Worcester Mine (coal mine) on the property of Notre Dame Institute, Worcester, Worcester Co., central MA. Named from Coal Mine Brook near the mine (Goldsmith and others, 1982).
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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