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Harrison Gneiss (including Prospect Gneiss)

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Interlayered dark- and light-gray, medium-grained, well-foliated gneiss, composed of andesine, quartz, hornblende, and biotite (also locally K-feldspar as megacrysts 1 to 5 cm long). Thought to be metavolcanic equivalent of unit Ob. Pumpkin Ground and Beardsley Members of Harrison Gneiss, formerly considered conformable metavolcanic members, are here recognized as juxtaposed metaplutonic units and are renamed the Beardsley and Pumpkin Ground orthogneisses. Isotopic dating yields ages of 428+/-2 Ma for the Pumpkin Ground and 446+/-2 Ma for the Beardsley. The Harrison Gneiss as described by Rodgers (1985) has no stratigraphic significance and cannot be correlated regionally (Sevigny and Hanson, 1993).
State Connecticut
Name Harrison Gneiss (including Prospect Gneiss)
Geologic age Middle? Ordovician
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Metamorphic > GneissInterlayered dark- and light-gray, medium-grained, well-foliated gneiss, composed of andesine, quartz, hornblende, and biotite (also locally K-feldspar as megacrysts 1 to 5 cm long).
Comments Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium; Hartland Belt. Secondary unit description per CT007.
References

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

Sevigny, J.H. and Hanson, G.N., 1993, Orogenic evolution of the New England Appalachians of southwestern Connecticut: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, no. 12, p. 1591-1605.
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Counties Fairfield - Hartford