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Geologic Unit: Moody Brook

Usage:

Moody Brook Formation of Buckfield Group (ME)
Moody Brook Member of Sangerville Formation (ME)


Geologic age:

Silurian


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

Along upper part of Moody Brook, Bryant Pond quadrangle, Oxford Co., southwestern ME. Also well exposed on hills immediately north of West Paris and hill just east of Stearns Hill (Guidotti, 1965).


AAPG geologic province:

New England province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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