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Plainfield Formation plus Potter Hill Granite Gneiss plus Narragansett Pier Granite

Plainfield Formation plus Potter Hill Granite Gneiss plus Narragansett Pier Granite - Plainfield Formation - Interlayered light-gray, thin-bedded quartzite, in places with feldspar, mica, graphite, or pyrite, light- to medium-gray gneiss composed of quartz, oligoclase, and biotite (rarely microcline), medium- to dark-gray schist composed of quartz, oligoclase, biotite, sillimanite, and garnet, dark-gray or green gneiss composed of plagioclase, quartz, biotite, and hornblende (commonly with diopside), amphibolite, diopsite-bearing quartzite, and calc-silicate rock. In places contains quartz-sillimanite nodules. Potter Hill Granite Gneiss - Light-pink to gray, tan-weathering, fine- to medium-grained, rarely porphyritic, well-foliated (not lineated) granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, oligoclase (or albite), biotite, and magnetite, minor muscovite, and local garnet. Narragansett Pier Granite - Pink to red, medium- to coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), generally massive (not gneissic) granite, composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, and biotite, and accessory muscovite and magnetite. Considerable associated pegmatite.
StateConnecticut
NamePlainfield Formation plus Potter Hill Granite Gneiss plus Narragansett Pier Granite
Geologic ageProterozoic Z? and Permian
Original map labelZp+Zsph+Pn?
CommentsPart of Eastern Uplands; Avalonian (Continental) Terrane. Units are described seperately on printed map; combined in digital map.
Primary rock typequartzite
Secondary rock typemica schist
Other rock typesgneiss; granitic gneiss; granite; amphibolite; calc-silicate rock; pegmatite
Lithologic constituents
Minor
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > GraniteNarragansett Pier Granite - Pink to red, medium- to coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), generally massive (not gneissic) granite, composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, and biotite, and accessory muscovite and magnetite.
Metamorphic > GneissPlainfield Formation - light- to medium-gray gneiss composed of quartz, oligoclase, and biotite (rarely microcline), dark-gray or green gneiss composed of plagioclase, quartz, biotite, and hornblende (commonly with diopside). Potter Hill Granite Gneiss - Light-pink to gray, tan-weathering, fine- to medium-grained, rarely porphyritic, well-foliated (not lineated) granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, oligoclase (or albite), biotite, and magnetite, minor muscovite, and local garnet.
Metamorphic > SchistPlainfield Formation - medium- to dark-gray schist composed of quartz, oligoclase, biotite, sillimanite, and garnet.
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > QuartzitePlainfield Formation - Interlayered light-gray, thin-bedded quartzite, in places with feldspar, mica, graphite, or pyrite; diopsite-bearing quartzite.
Incidental
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Leucocratic-granitic > PegmatiteNarragansett Pier Granite - Considerable associated pegmatite.
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Calc-silicate-rockPlainfield Formation - calc-silicate rock
Metamorphic > AmphibolitePlainfield Formation
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.
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 coverageNew London

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