Usage:
Whigville Member of Taine Mountain Formation (CT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Hillside 530 ft high, 2,000 ft south-southwest of the road junction in the village of Whigville, north-central Bristol quadrangle, Hartford, Litchfield, and New Haven Cos, CT. (Simpson, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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