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  • Usage in publication:
    • Benton Falls limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Guidotti, C.V., 1965, Geology of the Bryant Pond quadrangle, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Quadrangle Mapping Series, no. 3, 116 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500), [Also published as Maine Geol. Survey Bull., no. 16.]


Summary:

Pg. 22, 25. Benton Falls limestone [author does not capitalize rank terms; however, units are considered formal]. Interbedded limestone and shale, and marble. May have possible correlation with Berry Ledge formation (new). Name credited to Osberg (in prep.). Age is Silurian.
Type area: Waterville area, Kennebec Co., western ME.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 60).


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