Usage:
No current usage.
(†Longmeadow Sandstone of Newark Group (MA) or †Longmeadow Sandstone Member of Portland Formation (MA) replaced with Turners Falls Sandstone. See Turners Falls.)
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Longmeadow, Hampden Co., MA. Quarried on both sides of the Connecticut River at Larrabee's quarries, Springfield South quadrangle, Hampden Co., MA (Emerson, 1898).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
Deerfield basin
Hartford basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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