Silurian - Ordovician Carys Mills Formation, pelite member (MESOcms;0)

State	Maine
Name	Silurian - Ordovician Carys Mills Formation, pelite member
Geologic age	Silurian - Ordovician
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > MudstoneW - Weakly metamorphosed; contains local occurrences of prehnite and pumpellyite; Protolith A - Pelite
Comments	U - Unmetamorphosed
Stratigraphic units	Meduxnekeag Group
References	Osberg, P.H., Hussey, A.M., and Boone, G.M., 1985, Bedrock geologic map of Maine: Maine Geological Survey, Dept. of Conserv., scale 1:500,000. Pavlides, L., 1966, Meduxnekeag Group and Spraugueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, in Cohee, G.V., and West, W.S., Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature in the U.S. Geological Survey - 1965: U.S. Geological Survey Bull. 1244-A, p. 52-60. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b1244A US Geological Survey, 2005, National Geologic Map Database, Geologic Names Lexicon "GEOLEX", http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/.
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Counties	Aroostook

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Name

Silurian - Ordovician Carys Mills Formation, pelite member

Geologic age

Silurian - Ordovician

Lithologic constituents

Major

Sedimentary > Clastic > MudstoneW - Weakly metamorphosed; contains local occurrences of prehnite and pumpellyite; Protolith A - Pelite

Comments

U - Unmetamorphosed

Stratigraphic units

Meduxnekeag Group

References

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b1244A

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