Black to dark-gray, sulfidic to nonsulfidic, carbonaceous, fine-grained, well-foliated biotite-muscovite-quartz phyllite; contains pods and thin beds of medium-dark-gray and gray-and-white-mottled dolostone, thin beds of ankeritic quartzite, and, in upper part, rhythmically layered gray quartzite, limestone breccia and laminated silicic phyllite. Dolostone contains Middle Ordovician conodonts (Ibexian to mid-Whiterockian at West Bridgewater and Whiterockian at Buels Gore and West Bolton (Ratcliffe and others, 1999; Thompson and others, 2002). Cover rocks north of the Lincoln Mountain massif.