Fayston Formation - carbonaceous albite schist member (VTCAZfc;0)

Fayston Formation - carbonaceous albite schist member

Gray to medium-dark-gray, rusty-weathering, carbonaceous albite-chlorite-quartz-muscovite schist, containing porphyroblasts of black albite. Unit resembles gray albitic granofels and schist of the Hoosac Formation (CZhab). Cover rocks north of the Lincoln Mountain massif.

State	Vermont
Name	Fayston Formation - carbonaceous albite schist member
Geologic age	Lower Cambrian and Neoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schist > Muscovite-schistGray to medium-dark-gray, rusty-weathering, carbonaceous albite-chlorite-quartz-muscovite schist, containing porphyroblasts of black albite.
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	Rutland - Windsor

Fayston Formation - carbonaceous albite schist member

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.