Usage:
Cape Elizabeth Formation of Casco Bay Group (ME*)
Geologic age:
Paleozoic, early*
Ordovician
Paleozoic, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., southwestern ME (Hussey, 1978).
[Exposures in Two Lights State Park reinterpreted as Kittery Formation of Merrimack Group (see Hussey and Bothner, 1993). Type area remains Cape Elizabeth, but reference section has not been designated.]
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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