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Geologic Unit: Chiputneticook

Usage:

Chiputneticook Quartz Monzonite (ME*)


Geologic age:

Devonian*


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

Greenland Cove on East Grand Lake, Danforth quadrangle, northeastern ME. Named from best exposures on islands and shores of Chiputneticook Lakes, International Boundary, Maine, and New Brunswick (Larrabee, 1963).


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).