Usage:
Aquinnah Conglomerate (MA*-recognized locally on Marthas Vineyard)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Underlies Dukes boulder bed at Gay Head Cliffs fold on Marthas Vineyard, southeast MA, the only place it is known to occur. Aquinnah is Indian name for Gay Head (Woodworth and Wigglesworth, 1934).
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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