Usage:
Misery Quartzite Member of Tarratine Formation of Moose River Group (ME*)
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at northwest end of railroad cut through Misery Ridge at east end of Tarratine, Brassau Lake 15-min quadrangle, northern Somerset Co., west-central ME. Named from Misery Ridge (Boucot, 1961).
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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