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  • Usage in publication:
    • Coles Brook limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Emerson, B.K., 1898, Geology of old Hampshire County, Massachusetts, comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties: U.S. Geological Survey Monograph, 29, 790 p.


Summary:

Named for Coles Brook, Berkshire Co., western MA. Consists of more or less crystalline, white, impure, magnesian limestone. Age is Precambrian.

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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