Unit b [of Stockbridge Marble] (CTCAsb;0)

State	Connecticut
Name	Unit b [of Stockbridge Marble]
Geologic age	Upper and Middle? Cambrian
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metacarbonate > MarbleWhite, pink, cream, and light-gray, generally well bedded dolomitic marble . Minor Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Phyllite Metamorphic > Schist Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstonecommonly dolomitic Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstonecommonly dolomitic Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Quartzitecommonly dolomitic
Comments	Part of Western Uplands; Proto-North American (Continental) Terrane - Carbonate Shelf Secondary unit description from USGS Geologic Names lexicon (ref. CT017): Revised as Stockbridge Formation, a heterogeneous rock group that may be mapped as seven lithostratigraphic units A through G (ascending). Highest bed as mapped by Dale (1923) is interbedded with overlying schist and is reassigned to Walloomsac Formation. Units A, B, and C are mostly dolostone and include important beds of arkose and phyllite. Units D and F are heterogeneous rocks consisting of silty limestone, dolostone, calcite marble, phyllite, and calcareous sandstone. Sandstone shows cross-stratification that allows determination of the top of bedding. Units E and G are massive, white to gray calcite marble that include interbedded pale, massive, fine-grained dolostone. Because of this heterogeneity, the name is revised to Stockbridge Formation. Excellent exposures may be seen at Vossburg Hill and on hillside south of South Egremont village in Egremont quad, MA and NY. Yields no fossils but overlies Cheshire Quartzite of Early Cambrian age and underlies Middle Ordovician Walloomsac Formation; therefore, the Stockbridge spans the age between Early Cambrian and Early or Middle Ordovician.
References	Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000. USGS Geologic Names lexicon found at: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/ https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/search
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Counties	Fairfield - Litchfield

State

Name

Unit b [of Stockbridge Marble]

Geologic age

Upper and Middle? Cambrian

Lithologic constituents

Major

Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metacarbonate > MarbleWhite, pink, cream, and light-gray, generally well bedded dolomitic marble .

Minor

Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Phyllite

Metamorphic > Schist

Incidental

Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstonecommonly dolomitic

Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstonecommonly dolomitic

Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Quartzitecommonly dolomitic

Comments

Part of Western Uplands; Proto-North American (Continental) Terrane - Carbonate Shelf Secondary unit description from USGS Geologic Names lexicon (ref. CT017): Revised as Stockbridge Formation, a heterogeneous rock group that may be mapped as seven lithostratigraphic units A through G (ascending). Highest bed as mapped by Dale (1923) is interbedded with overlying schist and is reassigned to Walloomsac Formation. Units A, B, and C are mostly dolostone and include important beds of arkose and phyllite. Units D and F are heterogeneous rocks consisting of silty limestone, dolostone, calcite marble, phyllite, and calcareous sandstone. Sandstone shows cross-stratification that allows determination of the top of bedding. Units E and G are massive, white to gray calcite marble that include interbedded pale, massive, fine-grained dolostone. Because of this heterogeneity, the name is revised to Stockbridge Formation. Excellent exposures may be seen at Vossburg Hill and on hillside south of South Egremont village in Egremont quad, MA and NY. Yields no fossils but overlies Cheshire Quartzite of Early Cambrian age and underlies Middle Ordovician Walloomsac Formation; therefore, the Stockbridge spans the age between Early Cambrian and Early or Middle Ordovician.

References

Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000.

USGS Geologic Names lexicon found at: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/search

NGMDB product

NGMDB product page for 54245

Counties

Fairfield - Litchfield