Usage:
Mamacoke Formation of Waterford Group (CT*)
Mamacoke Formation of Waterford Complex (CT)
Subunits:
informal lower member and upper Cohanzie Member
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Mamacoke Island or Hill on west bank of Thames River in town of Waterford, New London Co., southeastern CT (Gregory, 1906).
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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