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Rope Ferry Gneiss

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(May be equivalent in part to Monson Gneiss) - Interlayered (but layers commonly lenticular to indistinct) light- to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained gneiss, composed of plagioclase, quartz, and biotite, with hornblende in some layers and microcline in others; local layers of amphibolite. Rope Ferry described as locally massive, gray-colored, lenticularly layered hornblende-biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss. Thickness varies; averages 1,130 m. U-Pb analysis of zircon and sphene from the Rope Ferry yields a 620+/-3 Ma age. Protolith consisted primarily of mafic metavolcanic rocks. Unconformably underlies Potter Hill Granite Gneiss of Sterling Plutonic Suite (Skehan and Rast, 1990).
State Connecticut
Name Rope Ferry Gneiss
Geologic age Proterozoic Z?
Lithologic constituents
Major
Metamorphic > GneissInterlayered (but layers commonly lenticular to indistinct) light- to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained gneiss, composed of plagioclase, quartz, and biotite, with hornblende in some layers and microcline in others.
Minor
Metamorphic > Amphibolite
Comments Part of Eastern Uplands; Avalonian (Continental) Terrane; Avalonian Anticlinorium. Secondary unit description per CT016.
References

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

Skehan, J.W. and Rast, Nicholas, 1990, Pre-Mesozoic evolution of Avalon terranes of southern New England, IN Socci, A.D., Skehan, J.W., and Smith, G.W., eds., Geology of the composite Avalon terrane of southern New England: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 245, p. 13-53.
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Counties Middlesex - New London