Usage:
Acton Granite (MA*)
Geologic age:
early or middle Paleozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Acton, Middlesex Co., eastern MA, where it is well exposed. Also exposed in Boxborough, Bolton, Harvard, Hudson, and Stow (Hansen, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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