Light-gray to medium-dark-gray, rusty-weathering, white-plagioclase-spotted biotite-quartz-plagioclase granofels, massive grayish-green chlorite-spotted, magnetite-studded, biotite-plagioclase-quartz granofels and gneiss, and porphyroclastic plagioclase-augen-biotite mylonite gneiss. Unit less well-bedded than granofels of the Hoosac Formation and lacks amphibolites common in the Hoosac flanking the Chester and Athens domes. Mount Holly Complex paragneiss. Rocks of the Green Mountain and Lincoln Mountain massifs and eastern domes. The term “Cavendish Formation” is restricted to two belts of rocks within the Chester dome; the larger belt occurs at Cavendish and on Hawks Mountain, and a less extensive belt, containing similar rocks, occurs near Star Hill. An Early Mesoproterozoic age is here favored for the Cavendish Formation on the basis of (1) the presence of deformed pegmatite (Y3Cp) and areas of Felchville Gneiss (Y1fg and Y1fga) within the Cavendish and (2) the marked resemblance of members of the Cavendish to aluminous and feldspathic schists, calc-silicate rocks, and quartzites within the Mount Holly Complex. Similarities to rocks of the Hoosac Formation are also striking and cannot be altogether dismissed; however, the Hoosac Formation lacks pegmatite and contains distinctive and well-bedded albitic granofels, mafic volcanics, and coarse pebble-to-cobble conglomerate, all absent from the Cavendish. Zircons from a quartzite lens in dolomite marble at locality 4 have Pb-Pb ages between 1,290 and 934 Ma and suggest some of the marble of the Cavendish may be younger than the Felchville Gneiss (Karabinos and others, 1999). Retrograded muscovite-rich, chlorite-spotted, chloritoid-bearing quartz phyllites and garnet granofels and other rocks of the Wilcox Formation (Y2wxs) closely resemble those of the Cavendish Formation, as do chloritic-muscovitic retrograded Y2rs members of the Mount Holly Complex in the Green Mountain massif. Dolomite marble, talc-tremolite rock, diopside quartzite, calc-silicate gneiss, and lustrous chlorite-spotted, chlorite-muscovite-rich retrograded garnet gneiss and schist in the Mount Holly Complex contain abundant pegmatite (Y3Cp) on Blue Ridge Mountain in Chittenden and are identical but lower-grade correlatives of the Cavendish Formation. The coarse garnet-staurolite- and kyanite-bearing Gassetts Schist Member is interpreted to be an Acadian remetamorphosed product of the retrograde aluminous rocks now seen throughout the Mount Holly Complex of the Green Mountain massif and in the Pine Hill area.