Usage:
/Newport Granite (VT-recognized locally in Orleans Co.)
[Name preempted (e.g., by †Newport Conglomerate by Hitchcock (1861) in RI, Newport Shales and Sandstones by Platt (1881) in PA, Newport Limestone by Lesley (1892) in PA).]
Geologic age:
Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Newport is in Memphremagog quadrangle, Orleans Co., northeastern VT (Richardson, 1908).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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