Canterbury Gneiss (CTDc;0)

Canterbury Gneiss

(May be equivalent to Ayer Granite of Massachusetts) - Light-gray, medium-grained, variably foliated, locally strongly lineated gneiss, composed of quartz, oligoclase, microcline, and biotite, locally also muscovite, or epidote, and generally with megacrysts 1 to 2 cm long of either or both feldspars.

State	Connecticut
Name	Canterbury Gneiss
Geologic age	Devonian
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Gneiss > Biotite-gneissLight-gray, medium-grained, variably foliated, locally strongly lineated gneiss, composed of quartz, oligoclase, microcline, and biotite, locally also muscovite, or epidote, and generally with megacrysts 1 to 2 cm long of either or both feldspars.
Comments	Part of Eastern Uplands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Merrimack Synclinorium; May be equivalent to Ayer Granite of Massachusetts
References	Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 54245
Counties	Middlesex - New London - Tolland - Windham

Canterbury Gneiss

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