Mount Abraham Formation - with minor porphyroblasts (VTCAZap;0)

Mount Abraham Formation - with minor porphyroblasts

Lustrous, silvery-green to bluish-gray, fine- to medium-grained, white mica-chloritoid-quartz-chlorite schist and phyllite, locally with minor garnet and magnetite porphyroblasts (CZap). Distinctive chlorite streaks and 1-cm rusty needles of altered kyanite are common. Rocks of the Rowe-Hawley Zone. Allochthonous cover sequence east of the Green Mountains: rift and drift stage metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks and tectonic inclusions of ultramafic rocks.

State	Vermont
Name	Mount Abraham Formation - with minor porphyroblasts
Geologic age	Cambrian and Neoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schistLustrous, silvery-green to bluish-gray, fine- to medium-grained, white mica-chloritoid-quartz-chlorite schist and phyllite, locally with minor garnet and magnetite porphyroblasts. Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > PhylliteLustrous, silvery-green to bluish-gray, fine- to medium-grained, white mica-chloritoid-quartz-chlorite schist and phyllite, locally with minor garnet and magnetite porphyroblasts.
References	Ratcliffe, N.M., Stanley, R.S., Gale., M.H., Thompson, P.J., and Walsh, G.J., 2011, Bedrock geologic map of Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3184, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3184
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 96860
Counties	Addison

Mount Abraham Formation - with minor porphyroblasts

Ratcliffe, N.M., Stanley, R.S., Gale., M.H., Thompson, P.J., and Walsh, G.J., 2011, Bedrock geologic map of Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3184, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000.