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Stockbridge Marble (Including Inwood Marble)

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White to gray, massive to layered marble, generally dolomitic but containing calcite marble in upper part, locally interlayered with schist or phyllite and with calcareous siltstone or sandstone.
State Connecticut
Name Stockbridge Marble (Including Inwood Marble)
Geologic age Lower Ordovician and Cambrian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metacarbonate > MarbleWhite to gray, massive to layered marble, generally dolomitic but containing calcite marble in upper part.
Incidental
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Phyllite
Metamorphic > Schist
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Calcareous)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Calcareous)
Comments Part of Western Uplands; Proto-North American (Continental) Terrane - Carbonate Shelf
References

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