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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cutting Hill Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Washington, P.A., and Chisick, S.A., 1988, The Beekmantown Group in the central Champlain Valley, IN Detenbeck, J.C., ed., Guidebook 2: Vermont Geology, v. 5, p. F1-F17.


Summary:

Cutting Formation of Cady (1945) is stratigraphically extended to include Division D, member 1 of Brainerd and Seeley, 1890, (now called Smith Basin Member), and is here renamed Cutting Hill Formation. No new type section is designated. Redefined unit includes Winchell Creek Sandstone Member, East Shoreham Member (named), and Smith Basin Member.

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


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