Stowe Formation - large-garnet schist member (VTCAZsgt;0)

Stowe Formation - large-garnet schist member

Silvery-green to grayish-green, garnet (large)- plagioclase-biotite (chlorite)-quartz-muscovite schist. Comparable to garnet schist member of the Rowe Schist in southern Vermont and around the Chester and Athens domes (CZrgs). 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	Stowe Formation - large-garnet schist member
Geologic age	Cambrian and Neoproterozoic?
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schist > Muscovite-schistSilvery-green to grayish-green, garnet (large)- plagioclase-biotite (chlorite)-quartz-muscovite schist.
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	Windham - Windsor

Stowe Formation - large-garnet 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.