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Belvidere Mountain Structural Complex - albite gneiss
White, light-gray- and green-banded, fine- to medium-grained, well-layered epidote-white mica-quartz-albite (±garnet±magnetite) gneiss; contains plagioclase and polycrystalline quartz porphyroblasts. The 0.5- to 2-cm-thick layers are defined by variations in the amount of quartz, albite, white mica, and chlorite. Gneiss is similar to gneiss at the base of the Tillotson Peak Structural Complex. Rocks of the Early to Late Taconic Accreted Terrane of the Rowe-Hawley Zone. Eastern allochthonous sequence, oceanic and accretionary realm, ultramafic inclusions, volcanic-arc intrusives, and volcanic rocks.
State |
Vermont |
Name |
Belvidere Mountain Structural Complex - albite gneiss |
Geologic age |
Cambrian and Neoproterozoic |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Metamorphic > Gneiss > Muscovite-gneissWhite, light-gray- and green-banded, fine- to medium-grained, well-layered epidote-white mica-quartz-albite (±garnet±magnetite) gneiss; contains plagioclase and polycrystalline quartz porphyroblasts. The 0.5- to 2-cm-thick layers are defined by variations in the amount of quartz, albite, white mica, and chlorite.
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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 |
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Counties |
Lamoille - Orleans
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