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Potter Hill Granite Gneiss plus Narragansett Pier Granite

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Potter Hill Granite Gneiss - Light-pink to gray, tan-weathering, fine- to medium-grained, rarely porphyritic, well-foliated (not lineated) granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, oligoclase (or albite), biotite, and magnetite, minor muscovite, and local garnet. Narragansett Pier Granite (Permian) - Pink to red, medium- to coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), generally massive (not gneissic) granite, composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, and biotite, and accessory muscovite and magnetite. Considerable associated pegmatite.
State Connecticut
Name Potter Hill Granite Gneiss plus Narragansett Pier Granite
Geologic age Proterozoic Z? and Permian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > GneissPotter Hill Granite Gneiss - Light-pink to gray, tan-weathering, fine- to medium-grained, rarely porphyritic, well-foliated (not lineated) granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, oligoclase (or albite), biotite, and magnetite, minor muscovite, and local garnet.
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > GraniteNarragansett Pier Granite - Pink to red, medium- to coarse-grained (commonly pegmatitic), generally massive (not gneissic) granite, composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, and biotite, and accessory muscovite and magnetite.
Minor
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Leucocratic-granitic > PegmatiteNarragansett Pier Granite - Considerable associated pegmatite.
Comments Part of Eastern Uplands; Avalonian (Continental) Terrane. 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 Middlesex - New Haven