State | Connecticut |
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Name | Ratlum Mountain Schist |
Geologic age | Lower? Ordovician |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Metamorphic > Granoblastic > GranofelsGray, medium-grained, interlayered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, oligoclase, biotite, and garnet.
Metamorphic > SchistGray, medium-grained, interlayered schist and granofels, composed of quartz, oligoclase, muscovite (in the schist), biotite, and garnet, also staurolite and kyanite in the schist.
Minor
Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Incidental
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Calc-silicate-rocksome of quartz-spessartine (coticule) and calc-silicate rock
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Comments | Part of Central Lowlands; Iapetus (Oceanic) Terrane - Connecticut Valley Synclinorium; Hartland Belt. Equivalents of Savoy Schist of Massachusetts (Emerson, 1898, 1917) (CT009, CT010) and of Moretown Formation of Vermont and Massachusetts (Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts, Zen and others, 1983) (CT011) (includes Golden Hill and Ratlum Mountain Schists) (Lower? Ordovician). |
References | Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000.Emerson, B.K., 1898, Geology of old Hampshire County, Massachusetts, comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties: U.S. Geological Survey Mon. 29, 790 p.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/m29 Emerson, B.K., 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 597, 289 p.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b597 Zen, E-an (editor), Goldsmith, Richard (compiler), Ratcliffe, N.M. (compiler), Robinson, Peter (compiler), Stanley, R.S. (compiler), Hatch, N.L., Jr., Shride, A.F., Weed, E.G.A. and Wones, D.R., 1983, Bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Special Map, 3 sheets, scale 1:250,000.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70046713 |
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Counties | Fairfield - Hartford - Litchfield - New Haven |