Predominantly medium-dark-gray to lustrous-tan, fine-grained garnet-biotite-muscovite phyllite and carbonaceous phyllite; contains layers of dark-gray quartzite, coticule, and ironstone, locally mapped separately. Part of the metasedimentary host rocks of the North River Igneous Suite. 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.