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Geologic Unit: Sunday Mountain

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Sunday Mountain Volcanic Member of Orfordville Formation (NH,VT) considered abandoned.)


Geologic age:

Middle Ordovician


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

Named from outcrops on and near Sunday Mountain, Orford Twp., Mt. Cube 15-min quadrangle, Grafton Co., northwestern NH (Hadley, 1942).


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 ([ ]).