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Geologic Unit: Meetinghouse

Usage:

Meetinghouse Slate Member of Gile Mountain Formation (VT*,NH*)
Meetinghouse Slate (VT,NH)


Geologic age:

Early(?) Devonian*


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

Named from Meetinghouse Hill [now Westinghouse Hill], in southeastern part of Strafford 15-min quadrangle (1896 ed., reprinted 1937), Orange Co., VT (Doll, 1944).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).