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Geologic Unit: Billings Hill

Usage:

Billings Hill Formation of Woodstock Group (ME)


Geologic age:

Silurian to Early Devonian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: along brook that parallels Billings Hill Road on west side of Billings Hill, Bryant Pond quadrangle, Oxford Co., western ME. Unit is present in broad belt that covers much of Spruce Mountain and Billings Hill (Guidotti, 1965).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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