Usage:
No current usage.
(†Albany Granite of White Mountain magma series [now White Mountain Igneous Suite] (NH) considered obsolete.)
Geologic age:
[Mesozoic]
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Albany, [in White Mountains, northern part of Carroll Co.], northern NH (Hawes, 1881; name credited to Prof. C.H. Hitchcock, 1874).
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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).