Usage:
Egremont Phyllite (CT,MA*,NY)
Geologic age:
Ordovician, Late*
Ordovician, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from its wide extent in Egremont Valley, Berkshire Co., southwestern MA (Hobbs, 1893).
Type locality: town of Egremont, Egremont 7.5-min quadrangle, MA (Zen, 1964, 1966).
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 ( ).
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