Dolomite marble (VTY2dm;0)

Dolomite marble

Light-gray to yellowish-gray, coarse-grained dolomite-phlogopite-scapolite marble; pyritiferous varieties weather salmon pink to beige. Unit occurs on West Mountain in Chittenden, in Sherburne Center, Weston, and in the Pine Hill slice; is commonly associated with tremolite-talc marble and tremolite-talc schist. Part of the aluminous schists and gneisses of the Washington Gneiss and Wilcox Formation and related rocks. Mount Holly Complex paragneiss. Rocks of the Green Mountain and Lincoln Mountain massifs and eastern domes.

State	Vermont
Name	Dolomite marble
Geologic age	Middle Mesoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metacarbonate > MarbleLight-gray to yellowish-gray, coarse-grained dolomite-phlogopite-scapolite marble; pyritiferous varieties weather salmon pink to beige. Unit occurs on West Mountain in Chittenden, in Sherburne Center, Weston, and in the Pine Hill slice; is commonly associated with tremolite-talc marble. Minor Metamorphic > Schist > Amphibole-schistIn the Pine Hill slice; is commonly associated with tremolite-talc marble and tremolite-talc schist.
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	Rutland - Windsor

Dolomite marble

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.