Cutting Dolostone (VTOcu;0)

Cutting Dolostone

Gray, thinly bedded dolomitic sandstone, grading upward into dolomitic limestone or mottled dolomitic marble. In southern Vermont east of the Taconic Range, unit is not recognized and may appear as sandy zones within rocks mapped as the Shelburne Marble. Vermont Valley sequence and Middlebury synclinorium (above the Orwell and Champlain thrusts).

State	Vermont
Name	Cutting Dolostone
Geologic age	Lower Ordovician
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > DolostoneGray, thinly bedded dolomitic sandstone, grading upward into dolomitic limestone or mottled dolomitic marble. Sedimentary > Carbonate > LimestoneGrading upward into dolomitic limestone. Sedimentary > Clastic > SandstoneGray, thinly bedded dolomitic sandstone. Minor Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metacarbonate > MarbleMottled dolomitic marble.
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	Addison - Chittenden - Franklin - Rutland

Cutting Dolostone

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.