Washington Gneiss (VTY2wg;0)

Washington Gneiss

Dark-rusty-grayish-brown-weathering, graphitic garnet-plagioclase-biotite-quartz (±sillimanite) schist; rusty-weathering blue-quartz-ribbed quartz schist; and garnet quartzite and rusty-weathering layers of sulfidic calc-silicate rock. Exposed in southernmost part of Green Mountain massif. Distinctive quartz ribbing decreases northward where more aluminous, less quartzofeldspathic rocks are mapped as Y2rs. 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	Washington Gneiss
Geologic age	Middle Mesoproterozoic
Lithologic constituents	Major Metamorphic > SchistDark-rusty-grayish-brown-weathering, graphitic garnet-plagioclase-biotite-quartz (±sillimanite) schist; rusty-weathering blue-quartz-ribbed quartz schist. Minor Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Calc-silicate-rockRusty-weathering layers of sulfidic calc-silicate rock. Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > QuartziteGarnet quartzite.
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	Bennington - Windham

Washington Gneiss

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.