Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Becket Granite Gneiss (CT,MA,VT) reallocated to Tyringham Gneiss (MA*) and unnamed paragneiss. See Tyringham.)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from fact it is quarried at Becket, western MA (Emerson, 1898; 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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