Usage:
No current usage.
(Most of †Dorset Limestone (VT) reallocated to Stockbridge Limestone. See Stockbridge.)
Geologic age:
Cambrian and Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Dorset Mountain, [Pawlet quadrangle], Rutland and Bennington Cos., southwestern VT (Hitchcock, 1866, 1867).
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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