Usage:
Quimby Formation (ME*,NH*)
Geologic age:
Ordovician*
Ordovician, Late(?)*
Cincinnatian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: lower part is between Quimby Pond and Hunter Cove; upper part is on shores of Rangeley Lake and core of Brimfield anticline, Rangeley 15-min quadrangle, central western ME (Moench, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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