Granites of southeastern Rhode Island

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.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 19719
Counties	Bristol - Newport

Granites of southeastern Rhode Island - granite

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.