Rowe Schist (CTOCAr;0)

Rowe Schist

Light-gray to silvery, fine- to medium-grained, generally poorly layered schist, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, oligoclase, and generally garnet, staurolite, and kyanite or sillimanite. Layers of granofels common; also some layers of amphibolite, quartz-spessartine rock (coticule), and calc-silicate rock.

State	Connecticut
Name	Rowe Schist
Geologic age	Lower Ordovician or Cambrian or both
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > SchistLight-gray to silvery, fine- to medium-grained, generally poorly layered schist, composed of quartz, muscovite, biotite, oligoclase, and generally garnet, staurolite, and kyanite or sillimanite. Metamorphic > Granoblastic > Granofels Minor Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Calc-silicate-rockquartz-spessartine rock (coticule), and calc-silicate rock. Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Comments	Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium; Hartland Belt
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	Fairfield - Hartford - Litchfield - New Haven

Rowe Schist

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