Granites of southeastern Rhode Island - granite

Pink to gray, coarse-grained, equigranular rock composed of microcline, perthite, plagioclase, quartz, and accessory biotite, sphene, zircon, and opaque minerals; secondary chlorite and muscovite. Generally massive, but locally foliated and lineated. Includes some rock mapped formerly as Bulgarmarsh Granite and Metacom Granite Gneiss.
State Rhode Island
Name Granites of southeastern Rhode Island - granite
Geologic age Late Proterozoic
Lithologic constituents
Major
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > GranitePink to gray, coarse-grained, equigranular rock composed of microcline, perthite, plagioclase, quartz, and accessory biotite, sphene, zircon, and opaque minerals; secondary chlorite and muscovite. Generally massive, but locally foliated and lineated.
Comments Part of Esmond-Dedham Subterrane (East Bay Area). Granites of southeastern Rhode Island - may be correlative with varieties of the Esmond Igneous Suite, from the West Bay Area.
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.

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Counties Bristol - Newport