Usage:
Hastings Creek Formation (VT)
Hastings Creek Limestone of Beekmantown Group (VT)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Notable exposures from northern part of St. Albans quadrangle, Franklin Co., northwestern VT, across international border for about 20 mi into Quebec, Canada (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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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