Usage:
Gile Mountain Formation (MA*,NH*,VT*)
Subunits:
Meetinghouse Slate Member (VT*,NH*), Northfield Member (VT*), Standing Pond Amphibolite Member (NH)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Gile Mountain in southern part of Strafford 15-min quadrangle, VT (Doll, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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