Usage:
Waweig Formation (ME)
Geologic age:
Silurian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Outcrops on Waweig Peninsula and the east shore of Oak Bay in the St. Croix River, extending for 3 mi south from the head of the bay, St. Stephen map-area, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada. (MacKenzie, 1940).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province
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