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Pharaoh Mountain Gneiss of Wiener and others (1984)

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Rusty-grayish-brown- to brown-weathering, knubbly coarse-grained magnetite-garnet-hornblende and pyroxene-bearing charnockitic gneiss and garnet-hornblende granite gneiss. Has large polycrystalline aggregates of plagioclase as much as 1.5 cm long, recrystallized from pre-Ottawan phenocrysts (?) of plagioclase. Contains mappable and folded screens of marble, calc-silicate rock (Y2cs), mafic diopside-hypersthene gneiss, and interbedded sillimanite-garnet quartzite (Y2qz). Interpreted as largely intrusive but may contain some charnockitic gneiss of uncertain origin. Rocks of the Adirondacks in Vermont and in the Whitehall, N.Y., area.
State Vermont
Name Pharaoh Mountain Gneiss of Wiener and others (1984)
Geologic age Late to Middle Mesoproterozoic
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Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > ParagneissRusty-grayish-brown- to brown-weathering, knubbly coarse-grained magnetite-garnet-hornblende and pyroxene-bearing charnockitic gneiss and garnet-hornblende granite gneiss.
Comments Original label is Y3Aphg, but age is listed as Late to Middle Mesoproterozoic. Changed label to Y2Y3Aphg.
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
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Counties Rutland