Usage:
No current usage.
(†Camels Hump Group (VT*) considered abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic and Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Gorge of Winooski River west of and downstream from Waterbury, Washington Co., north-central VT. Named from wide occurence on Camels Hump, a peak about 7 mi west of Waterbury (Cady, 1956).
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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).