Usage:
No current usage.
(†Battell Member of Monastery Formation (VT), †Battell Member of Underhill Formation (VT), or †Battell Formation (VT), considered abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Hancock Branch on southeast slope of Battell Mountain, Rochester area, [Bread Loaf 7.5-min quadrangle, Addison Co.], central VT (Osberg, 1952).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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