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Pre-Tertiary ultrabasic intrusive rocks

Peridotite and pyroxenite; generally altered partly or completely to serpentine. Includes serpentinite and saxonite on Sumas Mountain, Whatcom County.
StateWashington
NamePre-Tertiary ultrabasic intrusive rocks
Geologic ageLate-Jurassic
Original map labelpTb
CommentsThe Fidalgo group is located on the San Juan Islands; the Ingalls Tectonic Complex is located in central Washington and makes up the bulk of this unit. The Ingalls Tectonic Complex represents an ophiolite with facies grading from greenschist and zeolitic (prehnite-pumpellyite) to hornfels at its contact with the Mt. Stuart batholith (Tabor and others, 1982, 1987). Dragovich and others, 2002, reports that most of this unit is metamorphosed to talc-, tremolite-, or anthophyllite-bearing rock near plutons to silica-carbonate rock near faults. The referenced literature does not specify facies for each lithology, but I would assume that all of the above grades can be applied to almost all the lithologies though relative quantities of each lithology and facies combination are unknown; hence I do not specify facies in the lithology coding.
Primary rock typeserpentinite
Secondary rock typeperidotite
Other rock typespyroxenite; hornfels; schist; amphibolite; granofels; greenstone; phyllite; diorite; gabbro
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > SerpentiniteIncludes serpentinized peridotite and serpentinized pyroxinite.
Minor
Igneous > Plutonic > Ultramafic > PeridotiteMay include dunite (see WApTd for dunite of Fidalgo complex).
Incidental
Igneous > Plutonic > Gabbroic > Gabbro
Igneous > Plutonic > Dioritic > Diorite
Metamorphic > Phyllite
Metamorphic > Greenstone
Metamorphic > Granofels
Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Metamorphic > Schist
Metamorphic > Hornfels
Igneous > Plutonic > Ultramafic > Pyroxenite
Map references
Huntting, M. T., Bennett, W. A. G., Livingston, V. E. Jr., Moen, W. S., 1961, Geologic Map of Washington: Washington Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:500,000.
Unit references
Huntting, M. T., Bennett, W. A. G., Livingston, V. E. Jr., Moen, W. S., 1961, Geologic Map of Washington: Washington Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:500,000.
Stoffel, K. L., Joseph, N. L., Waggoner, S. Z., Gulick, C. W., Korosec, M. A., Bunning, B. B., 1991, Geologic Map of Washington--Northeast Quadrant: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Geologic Map, GM-39, scale 1:250,000.
Foster, R. J., 1960, Tertiary Geology of a Portion of the Central Cascade Mountains, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 71, no. 2, p. 99-126.
Tabor, R. W., Frizzell, V. A., Jr., Booth, D. B., Waitt, R. B., Whetten, J. T., Zartman, R. E., 1993, Geologic Map of the Skykomish River 30- by 60-Minute Quadrangle, Washington: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1963, scale 1:100,000.
Tabor, R. W., Frizzell, V. A., Jr., Whetten, J. T., Waitt, R. B., Swanson, D. A., Byerly, G. R., Booth, D. B., Hetherington, M. J., Zartman, R. E., 1987, Geologic Map of the Chelan 30-Minute by 60-Minute Quadrangle, Washington: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1661, scale 1:100,000.
Tabor, R. W., Waitt, R. B., Jr., Frizzell, V. A., Jr., Swanson, D. A., Byerly, G. R., Bentley, R. D., 1982, Geologic Map of the Wanatchee 1:100,000 Quadrangle, Central Washington: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1311, scale 1:100,000.
Southwick, D. L., 1974, Geology of the Alpine-type Ultramafic Complex and Mount Stuart, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, no. 3, p 391-402.
Dragovich, J. D., Logan, R. L., Schasse, H. W., Walsh, T. J., Lingley, W. S., Jr., Norman, D. K., Gerstel, W. J., Lapen, T. J., Schuster, J. E., Meyers, K. D., 2002, Geologic Map of Washington-Northwest Quadrant: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Geologic Map GM-50, scale 1:250,000.
Hibbard, M. J., 1971, Evolution of a Plutonic Complex, Okanogan Range, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 82, no. 11, p. 3013-3048.
Geographic coverageChelan - Ferry - Kittitas - Okanogan - Skagit - Whatcom

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