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Quartzite unit [in Plainfield Formation]

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Light-gray, glassy, generally thin bedded quartzite, also feldspathic and micaceous quartzite containing quartz-sillimanite nodules.
State Connecticut
Name Quartzite unit [in Plainfield Formation]
Geologic age Proterozoic Z?
Lithologic constituents
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Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > QuartziteLight-gray, glassy, generally thin bedded quartzite, also feldspathic and micaceous quartzite containing quartz-sillimanite nodules.
Comments Part of Eastern Uplands; Avalonian (Continental) Terrane; Avalonian Anticlinorium
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 Middlesex - New London - Windham