Belvidere Mountain Structural Complex - ultramafic rocks (VTCAZbu;0)

Belvidere Mountain Structural Complex - ultramafic rocks

Brown to white-weathering, green, massive, moderately to fully serpentinized dunite and peridotite and schistose serpentinite; rusty-weathering, medium-grained talc-carbonate rock and quartz-carbonate (magnesite) rock. 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 - ultramafic rocks
Geologic age	Cambrian and Neoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Plutonic > Ultramafic > Peridotite > DuniteBrown to white-weathering, green, massive, moderately to fully serpentinized dunite. Igneous > Plutonic > Ultramafic > PeridotiteBrown to white-weathering, green, massive, moderately to fully serpentinized dunite and peridotite. Metamorphic > Metaigneous > SerpentiniteSchistose serpentinite; moderately to fully serpentinized dunite. Minor Sedimentary > CarbonateRusty-weathering, medium-grained talc-carbonate rock and quartz-carbonate (magnesite) rock.
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	Lamoille - Orleans

Belvidere Mountain Structural Complex - ultramafic rocks

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.