Usage:
Turners Falls Sandstone of Newark Supergroup (MA*)
Subunits:
Informal Conglomerate facies member
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Early*
Hettangian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Town of Turners Falls, Millers Falls quadrangle, Franklin Co., northwestern MA. Exposed along State Highway 2 between Turners Falls and French King Bridge (Willard, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
Northfield basin*
Deerfield basin*
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 ([ ]).