Narragansett Pier Plutonic Suite - fine-grained granite (RIPnfg;0)

State	Rhode Island
Name	Narragansett Pier Plutonic Suite - fine-grained granite
Geologic age	Permian
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granite (Dike or sill)Gray to pink, fine-grained equigranular, massive to faintly foliated granite composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, biotite, magnetite, zircon, monazite, allanite, and apatite; secondary chlorite, muscovite, calcite. Occurs mainly as elongate (up to 2.5 km) dikes, up to 80 m wide.
Comments	Printed map unit symbol is Pnfg, digital map uses Pngf. Part of Avalon Terrane Narragansett Pier Plutonic Suite - intrudes both Hope Valley and Esmond-Dedham subterranes (e.g., stitching pluton). Contains abundant veins of pegmatite too small to be mapped individually. Radiometric ages of 276 Ma by Kocis and others (1978), 272+/-4 Ma by Hermes and others (1981), and 273+/-2 Ma by Zartman and Hermes (1987) are consistently Early Permian. Structural studies by Mosher (1983) and Reck and Mosther (1988) indicate that intrusion began during the third period of deformation in the Narragansett Basin. Argon release patterns (Dallmeyer, 1982) indicate that the granite and intruded sediments had cooled below argon retention temperatures of hornblende by the Late Permian and of biotite by the Early Triassic. Intruded by the Westerly Granite, which has been radiometrically dated at 276+/-7 Ma. The two granites are probably genetically related based on similarities in age, mineralogy, and geochemistry (Hozik, 1992) per RI003. Per printed map: age of rock based on radiometric data from RI008
References	Hermes, O.D. (comp.), Gromet, L.P. (comp.), Murray, D.P. (comp.), Hamidzada, N.A., Skehan, J.W., and Mosher, S., 1994, Bedrock geologic map of Rhode Island: Rhode Island Map Series No. 1, Kingston, Rhode Island, scale 1:100,000. Hozik, M.J., 1992, Tectonic implications of the brittle fracture history of the Permian Narragansett Pier Granite, Rhode Island, IN Bartholomew, M.J., and others, eds., Basement tectonics 8; Characterization and comparison of ancient and Mesozoic continental margins; proceedings of the eighth international conference on basement tectonics: International Conference on Basement Tectonics Proceedings, no. 8, 8th International Conference, Butte, MT, August, 1988, p. 503-525. Zartman, R.E., and Hermes, O.D., 1987, Archean inheritance in zircon from late Paleozoic granites from the Avalon zone of southeastern New England: an African connection: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 82, p. 305-315.
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Name

Narragansett Pier Plutonic Suite - fine-grained granite

Geologic age

Permian

Lithologic constituents

Major

Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granite (Dike or sill)Gray to pink, fine-grained equigranular, massive to faintly foliated granite composed of microcline, oligoclase, quartz, biotite, magnetite, zircon, monazite, allanite, and apatite; secondary chlorite, muscovite, calcite. Occurs mainly as elongate (up to 2.5 km) dikes, up to 80 m wide.

Comments

Printed map unit symbol is Pnfg, digital map uses Pngf. Part of Avalon Terrane Narragansett Pier Plutonic Suite - intrudes both Hope Valley and Esmond-Dedham subterranes (e.g., stitching pluton). Contains abundant veins of pegmatite too small to be mapped individually. Radiometric ages of 276 Ma by Kocis and others (1978), 272+/-4 Ma by Hermes and others (1981), and 273+/-2 Ma by Zartman and Hermes (1987) are consistently Early Permian. Structural studies by Mosher (1983) and Reck and Mosther (1988) indicate that intrusion began during the third period of deformation in the Narragansett Basin. Argon release patterns (Dallmeyer, 1982) indicate that the granite and intruded sediments had cooled below argon retention temperatures of hornblende by the Late Permian and of biotite by the Early Triassic. Intruded by the Westerly Granite, which has been radiometrically dated at 276+/-7 Ma. The two granites are probably genetically related based on similarities in age, mineralogy, and geochemistry (Hozik, 1992) per RI003. Per printed map: age of rock based on radiometric data from RI008

References

Hermes, O.D. (comp.), Gromet, L.P. (comp.), Murray, D.P. (comp.), Hamidzada, N.A., Skehan, J.W., and Mosher, S., 1994, Bedrock geologic map of Rhode Island: Rhode Island Map Series No. 1, Kingston, Rhode Island, scale 1:100,000.

Hozik, M.J., 1992, Tectonic implications of the brittle fracture history of the Permian Narragansett Pier Granite, Rhode Island, IN Bartholomew, M.J., and others, eds., Basement tectonics 8; Characterization and comparison of ancient and Mesozoic continental margins; proceedings of the eighth international conference on basement tectonics: International Conference on Basement Tectonics Proceedings, no. 8, 8th International Conference, Butte, MT, August, 1988, p. 503-525.

Zartman, R.E., and Hermes, O.D., 1987, Archean inheritance in zircon from late Paleozoic granites from the Avalon zone of southeastern New England: an African connection: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 82, p. 305-315.

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Washington