Usage:
Vassalboro Formation (ME*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician and early Silurian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Town of Vassalboro, Kennebec Co., south-central ME. According to Osberg (1979), name originally applied to exposures in the area between the Kennebec River and China Lake.
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.
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