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Pinney Hollow Formation, Ottauquechee, and Stowe Formations, Undifferentiated

Pinney Hollow Formation, Ottauquechee, and Stowe Formations, Undifferentiated - Includes quartz-muscovite-garnet-chlorite-biotite schist, rusty carbonaceous schist, amphibolite, and schistose quartzite. Schist locally contains porphyroblasts of staurolite and kyanite. On flanks of Chester and Athens domes.
StateVermont
NamePinney Hollow Formation, Ottauquechee, and Stowe Formations, Undifferentiated
Geologic ageOrdovician
Original map labelOCu
CommentsPart of Eastern Vermont Pinney Hollow Formation in the study area contains four major unnamed members: silvery green schist, greenstone, metagraywacke, and quartzose schist. Age according to map symbols is Proterozoic and Cambrian (Walsh, 1992) per VT014.
Primary rock typemica schist
Secondary rock typeschist
Other rock typesamphibolite; quartzite
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schistquartz-muscovite-garnet-chlorite-biotite schist, rusty carbonaceous schist, schistose quartzite. Schist locally contains porphyroblasts of staurolite and kyanite.
Minor
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Quartziteschistose quartzite
Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Map references
Nicholson, S.W., Dicken, C.L., Horton, J.D., Foose, M.P., Mueller, J.A.L., and Hon, Rudi, 2006, Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1272.
Unit references
Doll, C.G., Cady, W.M., Thompson, J.B., Jr., and Billings, M.P., 1961, Centennial Geologic Map of Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Map MISCMAP-01, scale 1:250,000.
Walsh, G.J., 1992, Bedrock geology of the Fayston-Buels Gore area, central Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey Special Bulletin, no. 13, 74 p., scale 1:24,000.
Geographic coverageWindham - Windsor

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