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Geologic Unit: The Straits

Usage:

The Straits Schist (CT*,MA*)
The Straits Schist of Hartland Group (CT)
The Straits Schist Member of Hartland Formation (CT)


Subunits:

Southington Mountain Member (CT*)


Geologic age:

Silurian or Devonian*


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

The Straits, a defile, on Litchfield Turnpike (Bethany-Naugatuck Road) near north edge of town of Bethany, Mount Carmel quadrangle, New Haven Co., central CT (Rodgers and others, 1956).


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 ([ ]).