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Publication:

Eusden, J.D., Jr., and Lyons, J.B., 1993, The sequence of Acadian deformations in central New Hampshire, IN Roy, D.C., and Skehan, J.W., eds., The Acadian orogeny; recent studies in New England, maritime Canada, and the autochthonous foreland: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 275, p. 51-66.


Summary:

At the base of the Littleton in the Alton quad, southeastern NH, is a thin, coarse-grained grit or conglomerate with gray and rusty-weathering lithic fragments of the Smalls Falls Formation, informally named the Wild Goose Grits by Eusden and others (1987). Unit represents a basal Littleton transgressive deposit on a disconformity. Littleton may have been 2.5 km thick in this area before erosion. The Wild Goose Grits are 100 to 300 m thick. Early Devonian Littleton is top of known Paleozoic sequence. Overlies Madrid Formation.

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


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