Usage:
Cranberry Island Volcanics (ME)
/Cranberry Island series [informal] (ME)
[When referring to the Cranberry Island series of Shaler (1889), please use informally. The practice of employing "Series" for lithostratigraphic or lithodemic nomenclature is now regarded as improper (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). The term "Series" is applied formally only to chronostratigraphic units.]
Geologic age:
Devonian, Early
Devonian
Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from development in Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry Islands, south of Mount Desert Island, southeastern ME (Shaler, 1889).
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 ([ ]).