Usage:
Browns Pond Formation (NY*-recognized locally in type area)
Subunits:
Mudd Pond Quartzite [unranked] (NY).
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: northwest of Granville, along Holcombville Road near Browns Pond, at the Granville-Thorn Hill 7.5-min quadrangle boundary, Washington Co., eastern NY (Rowley and others, 1979; name credited to L.D. Jacobi [L.L. Delano], 1977, SUNY-Albany MS thesis).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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