Moretown Formation - Whetstone Hill Member - coticule and quartzite facies (VTOmwhq;0)

Moretown Formation - Whetstone Hill Member - coticule and quartzite facies

Dark-gray to light-gray, vitreous magnetite quartzite, and coticule. 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.

State	Vermont
Name	Moretown Formation - Whetstone Hill Member - coticule and quartzite facies
Geologic age	Lower Ordovician to Cambrian?
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > QuartziteDark-gray to light-gray, vitreous magnetite quartzite, and 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	Windsor

Moretown Formation - Whetstone Hill Member - coticule and quartzite facies

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.