Usage:
Noyes Mountain Formation of Buckfield Group (ME)
Noyes Mountain Member of Sangerville Formation (ME)
Geologic age:
Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
On Noyes Mountain, Bryant Pond quadrangle, Oxford Co., southwestern ME. Also well exposed on Nubble, Shaw Ledge, lower parts of first brook south of Stearns Hill, and on two hills immediately northwest of Moose Pond (Guidotti, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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