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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bell Brook Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
    • Siltstone
    • Slate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Pavlides, Louis, 1965, Geology of the Bridgewater quadrangle, Aroostook County, Maine, with a section of geophysical surveys by Andrew Griscom and M.F. Kane: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1206, 72 p.


Summary:

Pg. 28-33, pl. 1. Bell Brook Formation. Consists of an older conglomerate member about 5,000 feet thick and a younger member about 6,000 feet thick that consists of olive-green siltstone and slate. May overlie Meduxnekeag Formation. Age is Silurian(?) and Devonian(?).
[Type locality]: Bell Brook in central part of T.C., R. 2, Bridgewater quadrangle, northern ME.

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