Mooselookmeguntic is a

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Franklin County, Maine Franklin County is a county located in the state of Maine, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,456, making it the second-least populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Farmington. The county was established o ...

, United States. It is located in the western part of the town of Rangeley, at the northern end of

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, west of Oquossoc. The community is on the east shore of the north end of

Mooselookmeguntic Lake Mooselookmeguntic Lake is located in Franklin County and Oxford County, Maine, in the United States. It is part of the Androscoggin River watershed. It is located in the western part of Maine, near the border with the state of New Hampshire and ...

, where it merges with Cupsuptic Lake. It is part of the Rangeley Lakes region of northwestern Maine. Mooselookmeguntic is one of the longest single-word, unhyphenated place names in the United States recognized by the

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. At 17 characters, it is tied with

Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania Kleinfeltersville is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is almost due east of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, Schaefferstown on Pennsylvania Route 897. Kleinfelter ...

Geology of Mooselookmeguntic

A publication of the Maine Geological Survey describes some of the bedrock just south of Lake Mooselookmeguntic as: :"Mooselookmeguntic

pluton In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and com ...

and related bodies. Primarily a medium-grained, two mica

adamellite Quartz monzonite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. It is typically a light colored phaneritic (coarse-grained) to porphyritic granitic rock. The plagioclas ...

. Some

pegmatite A pegmatite is an igneous rock showing a very coarse texture, with large interlocking crystals usually greater in size than and sometimes greater than . Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar, and mica, having a similar silicic com ...

References

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