Monastery Formation (VT*)
Neoproterozoic and Cambrian*
Named from exposures on north-east slopes of Monastery Mountain. Occurs in wide north-south trending belt between Monastery Mountain and Pine Gap and between western slopes of Gillespie Mountain and eastern slopes of Burnt Hill, Rochester-East Middlebury area, VT (Osberg, 1952).
New England province*
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