Golden Hill Schist (CTOgh1;0)

State	Connecticut
Name	Golden Hill Schist
Geologic age	Lower? Ordovician
Original map label	Ogh?
Comments	Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium; Equivalents of Savoy Schist of Massachusetts (Emerson, 1898, 1917) and of Moretown Formation of Vermont and Massachusetts (Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts, Zen and others, 1983) (includes Golden Hill and Ratlum Mountain Schists) (Lower? Ordovician) Same as Ogh
Primary rock type	schist
Secondary rock type	granofels
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Granoblastic > GranofelsGray to silvery, medium- to coarse-grained, generally layered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, plagioclase, and garnet. Metamorphic > SchistGray to silvery, medium- to coarse-grained, generally layered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, plagioclase, and garnet.
Map references	Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, DEP, in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, 2000, Bedrock Geology of Connecticut, data format: shapefile, file name: bedrock, downloaded from: http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/MAGIC_DBsearch2.pl?Geography=37800&Loc=0000 on 9/18/2003, scale 1:50,000. [http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/connecticut_data.html#environmental] [http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/MAGIC_DBsearch2.pl?Geography=37800&Loc=0000]
Unit references	Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 125,000.
Geographic coverage	Fairfield