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Geologic Unit: West Halifax

Usage:

West Halifax Trondhjemite of North River Igneous Suite (VT*)


Geologic age:

Ordovician*
Silurian(?)*


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

Bench-like outcrop (200 m by 25 m) located along west slope of northeast-trending ridge, approx. 50 m below crest, 0.75 km east of center of village of West Halifax, southeast part of Jacksonville 7.5-min quadrangle, Windham Co., VT (Ratcliffe and Armstrong, in press).


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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