Usage:
No current usage.
(†Charlotte Group (ME,Canada) considered abandoned. In Canada, †Charlotte Group replaced with Cookson Formation [now Cookson Group], Digdeguash Formation, and Flume Ridge Formation. See Cookson, Digdeguash, and Flume Ridge.)
Geologic age:
Ordovician, Early
Paleozoic, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada (Alcock, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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