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

Hall, B.A., 1970, Stratigraphy of the southern end of the Munsungun anticlinorium, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 20, 63 p.


Summary:

Named for Chase Brook, Piscataquis Co., north-central ME. Consists of gray, black, and green-gray slate with interbedded limestone and siltstone. Thickness is 760 m. Unconformably underlies Chase Lake Formation. Age is Cambrian(?).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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