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Geologic Unit: Digdeguash

Usage:

Digdeguash Formation (ME)
Digdeguash Formation of Cookson Group (ME)


Geologic age:

Late(?) Ordovician to early Silurian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)

Exposures along the Digdeguash River at Tryon, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada (Ruitenberg, 1967).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province


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