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  • Usage in publication:
    • Orange granite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Foyles, E.J., and Richardson, C.H., 1929, Rock correlation studies in west-central Vermont, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of Vermont, 1927-1928: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 16th, p. 281-289.


Summary:

Table opp. p. 288. Orange granite. Listed this name in Devonian of "central Vermont," but without definition. Named from Orange Township, Orange County, northeastern Vermont.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1556).


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

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