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Geologic Unit: Eddy Hill

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Eddy Hill Grit (NY,VT) reallocated to Bull Formation and West Castleton Formation. See Bull and West Castleton.)


Geologic age:

Cambrian(?)


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

Type locality: a 650-ft knob (referred to as Eddy Hill by Dale), just outside the southeast corner of village of Fair Haven, Thorn Hill 7.5-min quadrangle, Rutland Co., southwestern VT (see Zen, 1961).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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