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  • Usage in publication:
    • Willimantic Gneiss*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Pease, M.H., Jr., 1989, Correlation of the Oakdale Formation and Paxton Group of central Massachusetts with strata in northeastern Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1796, 26 p.


Summary:

Age of the Willimantic Gneiss is Late Proterozoic(?) based on 207Pb/206Pb ages.

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


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