Usage:
Prescott Complex (MA*)
Subunits:
Cooleyville Granitic Gneiss (MA*).
Geologic age:
Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Packard Mountain in Prescott, Hampshire Co., west-central MA (Emerson, 1917).
Town of Prescott was obliterated by establishment of Quabbin Reservoir, so all exposures are present on Prescott Peninsula of Quabbin Reservoir (Robinson and Luttrell, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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