Usage:
Pocomoonshine Lake Formation (ME)
Pocomoonshine Lake Formation of Cookson Group (ME)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops along southeast shore of Pocomoonshine (Pocamoonshine) Lake at the western margin of the St. Croix Belt, Big Lake quadrangle, Washington Co., eastern ME (Ludman and Hill, 1986; Ludman, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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