State | New Hampshire |
---|---|
Name | Littleton Formation, undivided |
Geologic age | Lower Devonian; Siegenian |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Metasandstone > Metagraywackegray metapelite and metawacke
Minor
Metamorphic > Metaigneous > Metavolcanic
|
Comments | Part of the Central Maine Composite Terrane (Central Maine Trough) - Variably metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of greenschist to granulite facies, locally migmatized. Area includes structural belts between the Monroe fault on the west and the Campbell Hill fault on the east; that is, the Bronson Hill anticlinorium, Piedmont allochthon, Kearsarge-central Maine synclinorium, central New Hampshire anticlinorium, and Rochester-Lebanon (Maine) antiformal synclinorium. |
References | |
NGMDB product | |
Counties | Belknap - Carroll - Cheshire - Coos - Grafton - Hillsborough - Merrimack - Rockingham - Strafford - Sullivan |