Geologic units in Fairfield county, Connecticut

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Walloomsac Schist (Middle Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.8 % of this area

Walloomsac Schist - Black to dark-or silvery-gray, rarely layered schist or phyllite, composed of quartz, albite, and commonly garnet and staurolite or sillimanite (locally strongly retrograded to chlorite and muscovite). Locally feldspathic or calcareous near the base.

Lithology: schist; phyllite

Trap Falls Formation (Middle or Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

Trap Falls Formation (may be equivalent in part to Golden Hill Schist) - Gray to silvery, partly rusty weathering, medium-grained generally well layered schist, composed of quartz, sodic plagioclase, biotite, muscovite, and garnet, locally with sillimanite or kyanite, interlayered with two-mica gneiss and granulite and with amphibolite.

Lithology: schist; gneiss; granulite; amphibolite

Golden Hill Schist (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

Golden Hill Schist (may be equivalent to part of Trap Falls Formation) - Gray to silvery, medium- to coarse-grained, generally layered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, plagioclase, and garnet.

Lithology: schist; granofels

Amphibolite unit [in Ratlum Mountain Schist] (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

Amphibolite unit [in Ratlum Mountain Schist] - Black or mottled, generally massive amphibolite and hornblende gneiss, composed of hornblende and andesine, commonly with minor quartz and magnetite, and locally with garnet, biotite, and epidote.

Lithology: amphibolite; mafic gneiss

Unit a [of Stockbridge Marble] (Lower Cambrian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Unit a [of Stockbridge Marble] - White to pale-gray, massive, smooth-weathering dolomite marble.

Lithology: marble

Allingtown Metavolcanics plus Maltby Lakes Metavolcanics (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Allingtown Metavolcanics plus Maltby Lakes Metavolcanics - Allingtown Metavolcanics - Green, fine-grained, massive greenstone, composed of epidote, actinolite, albite, and chlorite, commonly with abundant megacrysts of saussurite, interlayered with minor green phyllite, generally containing quartz and sericite. Dark amphibole in western outcrops. Maltby Lakes Metavolcanics - Green to gray-green, fine-grained, massive to well-foliated and layered greenstone, greenschist, and schist; also dark amphibolite to west and southwest.

Lithology: greenstone; schist; greenschist; phyllite; amphibolite

Manhattan Formation, undivided (Ordovician?) at surface, covers 0.1 % of this area

Manhattan Formation, undivided - pelitic schists, amphibolite; Units ?Omb, ?Omc, and ?Omd may be Cambrian eugeosynclinal rocks thrust upon Oma; ?Omd - sillimanite-garnet-muscovite-biotite-plagioclase-quartz gneiss; ?Omc - sillimanite-garnet-muscovite-biotite-quartz-plagioclase schistose gneiss, sillimanite nodules, local quartz-rich layers; ?Omb - discontinous unit of amphibolite and ?Omc-type schist.

Lithology: pelitic schist; gneiss; amphibolite

Rowe Schist (Lower Ordovician or Cambrian or both) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Rowe Schist - Light-gray to silvery, fine- to medium-grained, generally poorly layered schist, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, oligoclase, and generally garnet, staurolite, and kyanite or sillimanite. Layers of granofels common; also some layers of amphibolite, quartz-spessartine rock (coticule), and calc-silicate rock.

Lithology: schist; granofels; amphibolite; calc-silicate rock

Nodular member [of Harrison Gneiss] (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.6 % of this area

Nodular member [of Harrison Gneiss] - Harrison Gneiss containing prominent quartz-sillimanite nodules.

Lithology: gneiss

Ratlum Mountain Schist (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 5 % of this area

Ratlum Mountain Schist - Gray, medium-grained, interlayered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, oligoclase, muscovite (in the schist), biotite, and garnet, also staurolite and kyanite in the schist. Numerous layers and lenses of amphibolite; also some of quartz-spessartine (coticule) and calc-silicate rock.

Lithology: schist; granofels; amphibolite; calc-silicate rock

Yonkers Gneiss (Middle Proterozoic) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Yonkers Gneiss - biotite and/or hornblende-quartz-feldspar gneiss.

Lithology: gneiss

Stockbridge Marble (Lower Ordovician and Cambrian) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Stockbridge Marble (including Inwood Marble) - White to gray, massive to layered marble, generally dolomitic but containing calcite marble in upper part, locally interlayered with schist or phyllite and with calcareous siltstone or sandstone.

Lithology: marble; schist; phyllite; siltstone; sandstone

Beardsley Member [of Harrison (Prospect) Gneiss] (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

Beardsley (hornblendic) Member [of Harrison (Prospect) Gneiss] - Medium- to dark-gray, medium-grained, well-layered and lineated gneiss, composed of plagioclase, quartz, microcline, hornblende, biotite, and epidote. Microcline may occur as megacrysts 1 to 3 cm across. Minor layers of garnetiferous schist and rarely of calc-silicate rock or marble. Pumpkin Ground and Beardsley Members of Harrison Gneiss, formerly considered conformable metavolcanic members, are here recognized as juxtaposed metaplutonic units and are renamed the Beardsley and Pumpkin Ground orthogneisses. Isotopic dating yields crystallization ages of 428+/-2 Ma (Early Silurian) for the Pumpkin Ground and 446+/-2 Ma (Late Ordovician) for the Beardsley. Age of the Beardsley based on analysis of seven zircon and two sphene fractions. The Harrison Gneiss as described by Rodgers (1985) has no stratigraphic significance and cannot be correlated regionally (Sevigny and Hanson, 1993).

Lithology: gneiss; schist; calc-silicate rock; marble

Basal member [of The Straits Schist] (Silurian) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Basal member [of The Straits Schist] ( = Russell Mountain Formation of Massachusetts) - Distinguished by presence of layers of amphibolite, marble, calc-silicate rock, and quartzite within more uniform schist like that on either side. Minor, unevenly distributed mineralization in W, Bi, Cu, Ni, and other metals.

Lithology: schist; amphibolite; marble; calc-silicate rock; quartzite

Amphibolite (Middle Proterozoic) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Amphibolite - commonly biotitic; garnetiferous, pyroxenic, in and adjacent to Adirondack Highlands.

Lithology: amphibolite

Schist and granulite member [of Trap Falls Formation] (Middle or Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

Schist and granulite member [of Trap Falls Formation] - Interlayered gray to silvery, medium- to coarse-grained schist and fine-grained granofels, composed of quartz, sodic plagioclase, biotite, and muscovite; garnet common in schist.

Lithology: schist; granofels

Ordovician? granitic gneiss (Middle Ordovician?) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Ordovician? granitic gneiss (including local terms Ansonia, Mine Hill, "Tyler Lake," "Siscowit") - White, light-gray, buff, or pink, generally foliated granitic gneiss, composed of sodic plagioclase, quartz, microcline, muscovite, and biotite, and locally garnet or sillimanite. Commonly contains numerous inclusions or layers of mica schist and gneiss.

Lithology: granitic gneiss

Ultramafic rock (Ordovician or older) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Ultramafic rock - Ultramafic rock, originally composed of olivine and pyroxene, now generally altered to tremolite, talc, chlorite, or serpentine.

Lithology: ultramafic intrusive rock; serpentinite

Collinsville Formation (Middle Ordovician) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Collinsville Formation - Mixture of rock types as described for the two members; in many areas felsic and mafic striped metavolcanic rocks predominate.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite; felsic metavolcanic rock; mafic metavolcanic rock; granulite

Fordham Gneiss (C and D member) (Precambrian - Middle Proterozoic ) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Fordham Gneiss (C and D member) - fc: biotite-hornblende-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, quartz-feldspar lenses, amphibolite, biotite and/or hornblende-quartz-feldspar gneiss; fd: sillimanite-garnet schistose gneiss, quartzite.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite; quartzite

Rusty mica schist and gneiss (Proterozoic Y; may contain some older rocks) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Rusty mica schist and gneiss (equivalent in part to Washington Gneiss of Massachusetts) - Dark-gray, rusty-weathering, well-foliated and well- to poorly layered schist and gneiss composed of quartz, plagioclase, biotite, muscovite, sillimanite, and locally garnet; some layers of feldspathic quartzite and garnetiferous amphibolite.

Lithology: schist; gneiss; quartzite; amphibolite

Stockbridge Formation (Cambrian - Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Stockbridge Formation - calcitic and dolomitic marble.

Lithology: marble

Ordovician? granitic gneiss (Middle Ordovician?) at surface, covers 13 % of this area

Lithology: granitic gneiss; schist

Fordham Gneiss, undivided (Precambrian - Middle Proterozoic ) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Fordham Gneiss, undivided - fe: garnet-biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, and amphibolite; fd: sillimanite-garnet schistose gneiss, quartzite; fc: biotite- hornblende-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, quartz-feldspar lenses, amphibolite, biotite and/or hornblende-quartz-feldspar gneiss; fb: amphibolite, biotite and/or hornblende-garnet-quartz-plagioclase gneiss; fa: garnet-biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, amphibolite, biotite-hornblende-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, quartz-feldspar granulite.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite; granulite; quartzite

Wepawaug Schist (Devonian or Silurian or both) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Wepawaug Schist - Medium- to dark-gray, medium- to fine-grained, well-layered schist or phyllite and metasiltstone, composed of quartz, muscovite or sericite, plagioclase, biotite, and in appropriate metamorphic zones chlorite, garnet, staurolite, and kyanite. Schist or phyllite generally graphic.

Lithology: schist; phyllite; metasedimentary rock

Harrison Gneiss (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Lithology: gneiss

Biotite granite gneiss (Middle Proterozoic) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Biotite granite gneiss - overprint signifies inequigranular texture.

Lithology: granitic gneiss

Brookfield Gneiss (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 8 % of this area

Brookfield (dioritic and granodioritic) Gneiss (including Newtown Gneiss of Crowley, 1968) - Dark and light, commonly speckled or banded, medium- to coarse-grained, massive to poorly foliated gneiss, composed of plagioclase, biotite, and hornblende, generally with quartz and K-feldspar, the latter commonly as megacrysts 1 to 3 cm across (also plagioclase megacrysts in darker rocks), locally associated with amphibolite or hornblende schist.

Lithology: orthogneiss; amphibolite; mica schist

Golden Hill Schist (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Lithology: schist; granofels

Pink granitic gneiss (Proterozoic Y) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Pink granitic gneiss - Light-pink to gray, medium- to coarse-grained, foliated but generally massive or poorly layered granitic gneiss, composed of quartz, microcline, oligoclase, and either biotite or muscovite or both, also locally amphibole or epidote.

Lithology: granitic gneiss

Buttress Dolerite (Middle? Jurassic) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Buttress Dolerite - Dark-gray to greenish-gray (weathers brown or gray), medium- to fine-grained, commonly porphyritic, generally massive with well-developed columnar jointing, grading from basalt near contacts to fine-grained gabbro in the interior, composed of plagioclase and pyroxene with accessory opaques and locally devitrified glass, quartz, or olivine.

Lithology: diabase; basalt; gabbro

Harrison/Ravenswood Gneiss (Ordovician?) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Harrison Gneiss - in New York and Connecticut, Brookfield diorite gneiss in Connecticut, and Ravenswood Gneiss in Brooklyn - biotite-hornblende-quartz- plagioclase gneiss with accessory garnet and sphene; plagioclase commonly occurs as augen.

Lithology: gneiss; augen gneiss

Pumpkin Ground Member [of Harrison (Prospect) Gneiss] (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Pumpkin Ground (porphyritic) Member [of Harrison (Prospect) Gneiss] - Medium- to light-gray, medium- to coarse-grained, well-layered and foliated gneiss, composed of oligoclase, microcline, quartz, and biotite; some layers have numerous microcline megacrysts 1 to 5 cm across; others have hornblende. Minor layers of garnetiferous schist and gneiss. Pumpkin Ground and Beardsley Members of Harrison Gneiss, formerly considered conformable metavolcanic members, are here recognized as juxtaposed metaplutonic units and are renamed the Beardsley and Pumpkin Ground orthogneisses. Isotopic dating yields ages of 428+/-2 Ma (Early Silurian) for the Pumpkin Ground and 446+/-2 Ma (Late Ordovician) for the Beardsley, accepted by authors as crystallization ages. Pumpkin Ground intrudes the Trap Falls Formation. The Harrison Gneiss as described by Rodgers (1985) has no stratigraphic significance and cannot be correlated regionally (Sevigny and Hanson, 1993).

Lithology: gneiss; schist

Bedford Gneiss (Ordovician?) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Bedford Gneiss - biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss and interlayered amphibolite; in part with augen of andesine and microcline.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite; augen gneiss

The Straits Schist (Devonian or Silurian or both) at surface, covers 5 % of this area

The Straits Schist ( = Goshen Formation of Massachusetts) - Silvery to gray, non-rusty, coarse- to very coarse grained, generally poorly layered schist, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, oligoclase, garnet, and commonly with staurolite and kyanite or sillimanite; graphitic almost throughout. Distinctive sequence of metamorphic strata overlying the Collinsville Formation in the Bristol quad., is here correlated with the Straits Schist of Fritts (1963) in the Southington quad. Consists mainly of rusty-weathering, medium- to coarse-grained, commonly crenulated, garnet-bearing, graphitic, muscovite-rich, plagioclase-quartz schist with graded bedding. Unit is called The Straits Schist following the original usage of Rodgers and others (1959). In the southern part of the Bristol quad., unit includes the Southington Mountain Member (here reduced in rank) in its upper part. Age of The Straits is inferred to be Silurian or Devonian. Unit is tentatively correlated with the Goshen Formation based on lithologic similarities and a possible unconformity at the base (Simpson, 1990).

Lithology: schist

Pinewood Adamellite (Permian) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

Pinewood Adamellite - Light-gray, medium-grained, massive adamellite, composed of microcline, albite, quartz, and muscovite with accessory fluorite. High radioactivity.

Lithology: quartz monzonite

Harrison Gneiss (including Prospect Gneiss) (Middle? Ordovician) at surface, covers 7 % of this area

Harrison Gneiss (including Prospect Gneiss) - Interlayered dark- and light-gray, medium-grained, well-foliated gneiss, composed of andesine, quartz, hornblende, and biotite (also locally K-feldspar as megacrysts 1 to 5 cm long). Thought to be metavolcanic equivalent of unit Ob. Pumpkin Ground and Beardsley Members of Harrison Gneiss, formerly considered conformable metavolcanic members, are here recognized as juxtaposed metaplutonic units and are renamed the Beardsley and Pumpkin Ground orthogneisses. Isotopic dating yields ages of 428+/-2 Ma for the Pumpkin Ground and 446+/-2 Ma for the Beardsley. The Harrison Gneiss as described by Rodgers (1985) has no stratigraphic significance and cannot be correlated regionally (Sevigny and Hanson, 1993).

Lithology: gneiss

Hornblende gneiss and amphibolite (Proterozoic Y) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Hornblende gneiss and amphibolite - Dark-gray to mottled, fine- to medium-grained, massive to foliated amphibolite and gneiss, composed of hornblende and plagioclase, also commonly biotite and minor quartz; commonly interlayered with banded felsic gneiss. Locally contains calc-silicate rock or diopsidic calcite marble.

Lithology: amphibolite; gneiss; felsic gneiss; calc-silicate rock; marble

Manhattan Schist (Cambrian?) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Manhattan Schist (including Waramaug Formation and Canaan Mountain Schist) - Dark-gray to silvery, rusty-weathering, generally coarse grained, foliated but poorly layered to massive gneiss or schistose gneiss, composed of quartz, oligoclase, microcline, biotite, and muscovite, and generally sillimanite and garnet. Amphibolite layers locally, especially near base where in places separately mapped as unit CAma. Cambrian Manhattan Schist in this report includes four informal members: Warren member, garnetiferous biotite schist member, Shepaug member, and schistose granulite member. The Warren member occurs only in the Above All thrust sheet, the Shepaug member only in the Rabbit Hill thrust sheet. The schist member occurs in both. The granulite member occurs in the Rabbit Hill thrust sheet and the Lake Waramaug thrust sheet. The Warren includes mainly interbedded, dark-gray, muscovite-garnet-chlorite-plagioclase-biotite-quartz schist, amphibolite lenses, siliceous granulite, and finely-layered schistose gneiss. The Shepaug consists of interbedded orthoclase-garnet-plagioclase-biotite-quartz schistose gneiss, rusty-weathering, schistose gneisses and schists with sillimanite rods, and subordinate granulite beds with sillimanite nodules similar to those in the schistose granulite member (Panish, 1992).

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite

Inwood Marble (Early Cambrian - Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Inwood Marble - dolomite marble, calc-schist, granulite, and quartzite, overlain by calcite marble; grades into underlying patchy Lowerre Quartzite of Early Cambrian age.

Lithology: marble; schist; granulite; quartzite

Rowe Schist (Lower Ordovician or Cambrian or both) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Lithology: schist

Porphyry (dacite or rhyolite) (Permian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Porphyry (dacite or rhyolite) - Light-colored, very fine grained, massive porphyry with phenocrysts of quartz, feldspar, and biotite; muscovite and accessory fluorite in groundmass.

Lithology: rhyolite; dacite

Shelton Member [of Trap Falls Formation] (Middle or Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Shelton (white gneiss) Member [of Trap Falls Formation] - White, light-gray, or buff, fine- to medium-grained, generally well foliated granitic gneiss, composed of sodic plagioclase, quartz, microcline, muscovite, and garnet (in tiny almost ubiquitous grains), also commonly minor biotite; generally interlayered with mica schist, biotite gneiss, and calc-silicate rock. Thought to be metavolcanic equivalent of unit Og. Shelton Member of Trap Falls Formation (Rodgers, 1985) is here referred to as Shelton muscovite granite. On the basis of field and laboratory studies, Ansonia, Beardsley, Pumpkin Ground, and Shelton gneisses, previously considered stratigraphic units, are reinterpreted as plutonic. Shelton is a foliated, medium-grained, garnet-bearing muscovite leucogranite with a conspicuous white color and abundant garnets. Age of crystallization determined from U-Pb garnet analysis is 380+/-3 Ma (Middle Devonian). Southeast margin of the Shelton is in contact with the Trap Falls Formation (Sevigny and Hanson, 1993).

Lithology: granitic gneiss; biotite gneiss; mica schist; calc-silicate rock

Oronoque Schist (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

Oronoque Schist - Gray to silver, medium- to fine-grained, well-layered to laminated schist and granofels, composed of quartz, oligoclase, or albite, muscovite or sericite, biotite, or chlorite, and in western belt local garnet, staurolite, and kyanite. Small lenses of amphibolite or greenstone.

Lithology: schist; granofels; amphibolite; greenstone

Rusty and gray biotite-quartz-feldspar gneiss (Middle Proterozoic) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Rusty and gray biotite-quartz-feldspar gneiss - rusty facies contains variable amounts of garnet, sillimanite, cordierite, graphite, sulfides; minor marble and calcsilicate rock.

Lithology: gneiss; marble; calc-silicate rock

Ratlum Mountain Schist (Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Lithology: schist; granofels; amphibolite; calc-silicate rock

Unit b [of Stockbridge Marble] (Upper and Middle? Cambrian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Unit b [of Stockbridge Marble] - White, pink, cream, and light-gray, generally well bedded dolomitic marble interlayered with phyllite and schist and with siltstone, sandstone, or quartzite, commonly dolomitic.

Lithology: marble; phyllite; schist; siltstone; sandstone; quartzite

Taine Mountain Member (Lower? Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.6 % of this area

Taine Mountain Member - Gray, medium-grained, generally fairly well layered to well-laminated ("pin-stripe") gneissic or schistose granofels, composed of quartz, oligoclase, biotite, muscovite, and garnet, and locally staurolite and kyanite or sillimanite. The Taine Mountain Formation of Stanley (1964) is here adopted in the Collinsville and Bristol quads, CT. Includes 3 pinstriped units: the Wildcat, Scranton Mountain, and Whigville Members, also adopted from Stanley (1964). Underlies Bristol Gneiss (revised). Correlates with the Savoy Schist of Emerson (1898), Missisquoi Schist or Group of Richardson (1919, 1924), in MA; and the Moretown Formation of Cady (1956) in MA and VT. Age is Middle Ordovician (Simpson, 1990).

Lithology: granofels

Gneiss of Highlands massifs (Proterozoic Y; may contain some older rocks) at surface, covers 5 % of this area

Gneiss of Highlands massifs, (including Fordham Gneiss) - Mixture of rock types described below, where not separately mapped.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite; schist

Hartland Formation (Ordovician?) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

Hartland Formation - basal amphibolite overlain by pelitic schists.

Lithology: amphibolite; pelitic schist

Carringtons Pond Member [of Trap Falls Formation] (Middle or Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

Carringtons Pond Member [of Trap Falls Formation] - Interlayered medium- to dark-gray, rusty-weathering, medium-grained schist and light-gray, fine- to medium-grained gneiss, composed of quartz, sodic plagioclase, biotite, muscovite, and garnet; schist locally contains sillimanite or kyanite; gneiss locally contains K-feldspar; amphibolite layers common.

Lithology: schist; gneiss; amphibolite

Amphibolite-bearing unit of Manhattan Schist (Cambrian?) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Amphibolite-bearing unit of Manhattan Schist - Like Manhattan Schist but with numerous lenses and layers of amphibolite.

Lithology: gneiss; amphibolite

Dalton Formation (Lower Cambrian and perhaps partly older) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Dalton Formation (including Poughquag and Lowerre Formation) - Gray, tan-weathering, medium-grained, generally well layered gneiss or feldspathic quartzite, composed of quartz, microcline, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite, and generally tourmaline; some schistose micaceous layers have sillimanite; commonly as quartz-sillimanite nodules rimmed with muscovite. Layers of purer quartzite in many areas, especially near the top or where the formation is thin.

Lithology: gneiss; quartzite

Basal marble member [of Walloomsac Schist] (Middle Ordovician) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Basal marble member [of Walloomsac Schist] - Dark-gray to white, massive to layered schistose or phyllitic calcite-phlogopite marble.

Lithology: marble

Augen gneiss (Proterozoic Y) at surface, covers 0.9 % of this area

Augen gneiss (including local term "Danbury Gneiss;" equivalent in part to Tyringham Gneiss of Massachusetts) - Medium-gray to spotted, fine- to medium-grained, porphyritic, foliated and lineated granitic gneiss, composed of microcline (largely as megacrysts or augen up to 10 cm long), quartz, albite, or oligoclase, biotite and minor hornblende.

Lithology: augen gneiss

Trap Falls Formation plus Ordovician? granitic gneiss (Middle or Lower Ordovician) at surface, covers 8 % of this area

Trap Falls Formation plus Ordovician? granitic gneiss - Trap Falls Formation (may be equivalent in part to Golden Hill Schist) - Gray to silvery, partly rusty weathering, medium-grained generally well layered schist, composed of quartz, sodic plagioclase, biotite, muscovite, and garnet, locally with sillimanite or kyanite, interlayered with two-mica gneiss and granulite and with amphibolite. Ordovician? granitic gneiss (including local terms Ansonia, Mine Hill, "Tyler Lake," "Siscowit") - White, light-gray, buff, or pink, generally foliated granitic gneiss, composed of sodic plagioclase, quartz, microcline, muscovite, and biotite, and locally garnet or sillimanite. Commonly contains numerous inclusions or layers of mica schist and gneiss.

Lithology: schist; granitic gneiss; gneiss; mica schist; granulite; amphibolite

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