Usage:
No current usage.
(†Eolian Limestone (VT) replaced with Stockbridge Limestone, which has priority. See Stockbridge.)
Geologic age:
Cambrian and Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Mount Eolus (Dorset Mountain) [in Pawlet quadrangle], Bennington and Rutland Cos., southwestern VT, of which it composes greater part (Hitchcock, 1861).
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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