New Haven Arkose plus Buttress Dolerite

New Haven Arkose - Red, pink, and gray coarse-grained, locally conglomeratic, poorly sorted and indurated arkose, interbedded with brick-red micaceous, locally shaly siltstone and fine-grained feldspathic clayey sandstone. Buttress Dolerite (Middle? Jurassic) - Dark-gray to greenish-gray (weathers brown or gray), medium- to fine-grained, commonly porphyritic, generally massive with well-developed columnar jointing, grading from basalt near contacts to fine-grained gabbro in the interior, composed of plagioclase and pyroxene with accessory opaques and locally devitrified glass, quartz, or olivine.
State Connecticut
Name New Haven Arkose plus Buttress Dolerite
Geologic age Upper Triassic; possibly Lower Jurassic at top plus Middle? Jurassic
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone > ArkoseNew Haven Arkose - Red, pink, and gray coarse-grained, locally conglomeratic, poorly sorted and indurated arkose.
Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basalt (Diabase)Buttress Dolerite (Middle? Jurassic) - Dark-gray to greenish-gray (weathers brown or gray), medium- to fine-grained, commonly porphyritic, generally massive with well-developed columnar jointing, grading from basalt near contacts to fine-grained gabbro in the interior, composed of plagioclase and pyroxene with accessory opaques and locally devitrified glass, quartz, or olivine.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > SandstoneNew Haven Arkose - fine-grained feldspathic clayey sandstone.
Sedimentary > Clastic > SiltstoneNew Haven Arkose - locally shaly siltstone
Comments Part of Central Lowlands; Newark Terrane - Hartford and Pomperaug Mesozoic Basins; Units are described seperately on printed map; combined in digital map.
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 New Haven