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Geologic Unit: Stockbridge

Usage:

Stockbridge Formation (CT*,MA*,NY*)
Stockbridge Marble (CT*,NY)
Stockbridge Group (CT*,MA*,NY*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in MA*: Bascom Formation, Clarendon Springs Dolomite, Kitchen Brook Dolomite, Shelburne Formation or Shelburne Marble.


Geologic age:

Cambrian, Early*
Cambrian, Middle*
Cambrian, Late*
Ordovician, Early*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Stockbridge and Old West Stockbridge marble quarries, western MA (Emmons, 1842).


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 ([ ]).