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Kennebunk, York County, Maine, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 43.345,-70.5022 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on nearby landmark |
Given Location | Maine, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | York County, Maine, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Kennebunk, York Co. - Presumpscot Fm (Pleistocene) | Richards H. G. (1962) | Presumpscot | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic unit reported in text. Bloom (1960) assigned the name "Presumpscot Fm" to the sheet of emerged marine sediments that blankets the coastal region of southwestern Maine. AGE: Wisconsin (Levitt and Perkins, 1935), Late Pleistocene (Bloom 1960), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" | 0.126 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
Recorded Fossils
References
Richards H. G. (1962) Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America, Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52 3, 1-142 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!