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Geologic Unit: Camera Hill

Usage:

Camera Hill Greenstone Member of Seboomook Formation (ME*)


Geologic age:

Early Devonian*


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

Type section: Camera Hill, [south of Spencer Stream and west of Gore Rapids], in southwest quarter of Spencer [Spencer Lake] 15-min quadrangle [Lat. 45 deg. 18 min. 28 sec. N., Long. 70 deg. 25 min. 29 sec. W., King and Bartlett Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle], Somerset Co., west-central ME. Named from Camera Hill (Boucot, 1961).


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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