Upper part [of Maltby Lakes Metavolcanics] (CTOmau;0)

State	Connecticut
Name	Upper part [of Maltby Lakes Metavolcanics]
Geologic age	Middle? Ordovician
Original map label	Omau
Comments	Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium; Orange-Milford Belt
Primary rock type	greenstone
Secondary rock type	greenschist
Other rock types	metavolcanic rock
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > SchistGreen to gray-green, fine-grained, layered and foliated to massive greenstone and greenschist, composed of epidote, albite, actinolite, and chlorite, and locally minor quartz, sericite, garnet, pyrite, or calcite. Mainly metavolcanic. Metamorphic > Metaigneous > GreenstoneGreen to gray-green, fine-grained, layered and foliated to massive greenstone and greenschist, composed of epidote, albite, actinolite, and chlorite, and locally minor quartz, sericite, garnet, pyrite, or calcite. Mainly metavolcanic.
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	New Haven