List of stratigraphic units and structural features in Massachusetts
This list includes stratigraphic units and structural geologic features in Massachusetts, grouped by age and by region within the state.
Stratigraphic Units
Eastern Massachusetts
- Mattapan Volcanic Complex
- Lynn Volcanic Complex
- Middlesex Fells Volcanic Complex
- Hoppin Formation
- Greenlodge Formation
- Weymouth Formation
- Newbury Volcanic Complex
Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous)
- Bellingham Conglomerate
- Narragansett Bay Group[1]
Structural Geologic Features
Eastern Massachusetts
Basins, Zones, Troughs & Blocks
- Bellingham Basin
- Boston Basin
- Burlington mylonite zone
- Middleton Basin
- Nantucket Basin
- Narragansett Basin
- Nashoba Zone
- Nashua trough
- Newbury Volcanic Zone
- Norfolk Basin
Faults
- Bloody Bluff fault
- Clinton-Newbury fault
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1984. p. 1.
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