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Geologic Unit: Kendall Mountain

Usage:

Kendall Mountain Formation of Cookson Group (ME)


Geologic age:

Middle Ordovician
Ordovician, Late
Caradocian


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

Extensive exposures along the northwest flank of Kendall Mountain near the western margin of the Calais quadrangle, Washington Co., eastern ME (Ludman and Hill, 1986; Ludman, 1987).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province


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

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