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Geologic Unit: Allingtown

Usage:

Allingtown Metadiabase (CT*)
Allingtown Metavolcanics (CT*)


Geologic age:

Middle(?) Ordovician*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: community of Allingtown, just southwest of city of New Haven on U.S. Highway 1 [New Haven 7.5-min quadrangle, New Haven Co.], central southern CT (Fritts, 1965).


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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