Usage:
Capens Formation (ME*)
Geologic age:
Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: between Capens [no longer exists] and Lambert Island in northeastern part of Deer Island on the north limb of an anticline. Exposed on Sugar Island, Deer Island, and adjacent mainland in Moosehead Lake area (Moosehead Lake 15-min quadrangle). Named for Capens in Moosehead Lake 15-min quadrangle, western Piscataquis Co., western ME (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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