Stowe Formation - kyanite schist member (VTCAZsws;0)

Stowe Formation - kyanite schist member

Silvery-blue, medium- to coarse-grained chlorite-muscovite-quartz schist (±garnet±kyanite±chloritoid); contains characteristic spangly muscovite and elongated knots of quartz and layers of pinkish coticule, exposed in the Worcester Mountains. 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 - kyanite schist member
Geologic age	Cambrian and Neoproterozoic?
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Schist > Mica-schist > Muscovite-schistSilvery-blue, medium- to coarse-grained chlorite-muscovite-quartz schist (±garnet±kyanite±chloritoid); contains characteristic spangly muscovite and elongated knots of quartz and layers of pinkish coticule.
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 - Washington

Stowe Formation - kyanite 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.