Usage:
No current usage.
(†Saddleback Mountain Member of Hovey Formation (ME) replaced with unnamed volcanic lenses of Nine Lake Formation of Hovey Group. See Nine Lake.)
Geologic age:
early(?) Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Saddleback Mountain, west of Number Nine Lake, and on northwesternmost hill of Hedgehog Mountain, Maple and Hovey Mountains area, Aroostook Co., northeastern ME (Pavlides, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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