Usage:
Attean Quartz Monzonite of Highlandcroft Plutonic Suite (ME*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along line trending S. 70 deg. W. from unnamed islands in southwest part of Attean Pond to summit of Attean Mountain, Attean quadrangle, Somerset Co., west-central ME. Named from Attean Pond and Attean Mountain in Attean Twp. (Albee and Boudette, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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