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Geologic Unit: Moose River

Usage:

Moose River Group (ME*)


Subunits:

(ascending) --all in ME: Tomhegan Formation*, Tarratine Formation*, Heald Mountain Rhyolite.


Geologic age:

Early Devonian*


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

Exposures near Moose River (on Parlin Pond and Parlin Stream) and Moose River settlement, Somerset Co., western ME (Williams, 1900).


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