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Bull Hill Gneiss of Richardson (1931)
Light-pinkish-gray to gray, very coarse grained to medium-grained and mylonitic biotite-plagioclase-quartz-microcline augen gneiss; locally has large ovoidal relict microcline with rapakivi rims and intrusive breccia containing xenoliths of gneissic units of the Mount Holly Complex. Restricted to the Chester and Athens domes, occurring in the core as well as in fault slivers along the eastern and western margins, and tectonically intercalated with rocks of the Mount Holly Complex and the Hoosac Formation. U-Pb zircon upper-intercept ages of 945±7 Ma, no. 17, and 955±5 Ma, no. 18 (Karabinos and Aleinikoff, 1990). Cardinal Brook Intrusive Suite (965±4 Ma to 945±7 Ma). Rocks of the Green Mountain and Lincoln Mountain massifs and eastern domes.
State |
Vermont |
Name |
Bull Hill Gneiss of Richardson (1931) |
Geologic age |
Neoproterozoic |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > ParagneissLight-pinkish-gray to gray, very coarse grained to medium-grained and mylonitic biotite-plagioclase-quartz-microcline augen gneiss; locally has large ovoidal relict microcline with rapakivi rims and intrusive breccia containing xenoliths of gneissic units of the Mount Holly Complex.
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Comments |
Original unit label is Y3Ccbbh, but age listed as Neoproterozoic. Changed label to ZCcbbh. |
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 |
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Counties |
Windham - Windsor
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