Usage:
Seboomook Group (ME*,NH*)
Subunits:
Ironbound Mountain, Day Mountain, Temple Stream, Mount Blue, Hildreths, Carrabassett, and Northeast Carry Formations (ME*).
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on road and shore at east end of Seboomook Lake, and on Penobscot River for about a mile downstream from Seboomook Dam (Boucot, 1961).
Best exposure of formation is at Seboomook Dam (North East Carry quadrangle), on West Branch of Penobscot River [in extreme eastern part of Somerset Co.], Moosehead Lake region, western ME (Perkins, 1925; see also Boucot, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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