Usage:
Tarratine Formation of Moose River Group (ME*)
Subunits:
Misery Quartzite Member (ME*), McKenney Ponds Limestone Member (ME*)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along right-of-way of Canadian Pacific RR tracks between Tarratine, on west side of Misery Ridge, and Somerset Junction on east side of the ridge, Brassau Lake 15-min quadrangle, Somerset Co., west-central ME. Named for Tarratine railroad stop (Boucot, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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