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Cuttingsville stock - quartz syenite
Quartz syenite. Part of the White Mountain Igneous Suite; Cuttingsville stock - Composite stock and intrusive breccia dikes consisting of augite and hastingsite syenite, nepheline and sodalite syenite, essexite, and monzodiorite. Associated dikes of monchiquite, camptonite, boston-ite, and spessartite. Average of five K-Ar ages 101 Ma; ages range between 103±4 and 99±2 Ma (Armstrong and Stump, 1971).
State |
Vermont |
Name |
Cuttingsville stock - quartz syenite |
Geologic age |
Early Cretaceous |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Igneous > Plutonic > Syenitic > Quartz-syenite (Stock or pipe)
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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 |
Rutland |