Usage:
Newport Neck Formation (RI*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on the promontory called Newport Neck, southeastern RI, which juts westward into the East Passage of Narragansett Bay (Skehan and Rast, 1990).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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