Usage:
Rowe Schist (CT*,MA*,NY*,VT*)
Subunits:
Chester Amphibolite Member (MA*)
Geologic age:
Cambrian*
Cambrian, Early*
Cambrian, Middle*
Cambrian, Late*
Ordovician, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Town of Rowe, Franklin Co., western MA (Emerson, 1892, unpublished).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).