Nonewaug Granite (CTDng;0)

Nonewaug Granite

White to pink, fine- to very coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), massive to layered granite composed of albite, microcline, quartz, and muscovite, with minor biotite and garnet. Microcline commonly graphic; quartz and muscovite commonly in plumose aggregates.

State	Connecticut
Name	Nonewaug Granite
Geologic age	Devonian
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Leucocratic-granitic > Pegmatite(commonly pegmatitic) Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > GraniteWhite to pink, fine- to very coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), massive to layered granite composed of albite, microcline, quartz, and muscovite, with minor biotite and garnet. Microcline commonly graphic; quartz and muscovite commonly in plumose aggregates.
Comments	Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium
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	Hartford - Litchfield

Nonewaug Granite

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