Scituate Granite Gneiss (CTZss;0)

Scituate Granite Gneiss

Light-pink to gray., medium- to coarse-grained, generally porphyritic, well-lineated and locally foliated granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, albite or orthoclase, biotite, hornblende, and magnetite. Megacrysts of microcline up to 3 cm long; lineation formed by splotches of biotite or by rods or quartz.

State	Connecticut
Name	Scituate Granite Gneiss
Geologic age	Proterozoic Z?
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > GneissLight-pink to gray., medium- to coarse-grained, generally porphyritic, well-lineated and locally foliated granitic gneiss, composed of microcline, quartz, albite or orthoclase, biotite, hornblende, and magnetite. Megacrysts of microcline up to 3 cm long; lineation formed by splotches of biotite or by rods or quartz.
Comments	Part of Eastern Uplands; Avalonian (Continental) Terrane; Avalonian Anticlinorium; Sterling Plutonic Group (Proterozoic Z?).
References	Rodgers, John, compiler, 1985, Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 54245
Counties	New London - Windham

Scituate Granite Gneiss

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