Usage:
Beck Pond Limestone (ME*)
Geologic age:
Devonian, Early*
Gedinnian, late*
Helderbergian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: on south part of low hill in NW part of T. 3, R. 5, in area west of Beck Pond and Bear Pond, Spencer [Lake] 15-min quadrangle, Somerset Co., west-central ME (Boucot and others, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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