Unit is a composite of units best described by Till and others (2011, units Dcs, and Ds) and consists of pelitic, calcareous, and graphitic schist interlayered on a scale of centimeters to meters in the Nome and Solomon quadrangles. Unit is predominantly pale-brown and gray, weakly to well foliated schist that consists primarily of plagioclase, calcite, quartz, white mica, and graphite. Pelitic schist weathers light- to dark-gray and contains chloritoid, glaucophane, or pseudomorphs of chlorite and albite after glaucophane, and rarely, garnet. Calcareous schist is light- to dark-brownish-gray and commonly contains chloritoid and rare garnet, as well as dolomite. Locally gray pelitic schist is interlayered with orange- or brown-weathering impure marble, calcareous schist, or mica- and graphite-rich schist. Dark-gray- to black-weathering, graphitic, locally micaceous schist “contains mm-scale laminae enriched in graphite, white mica, and iron oxide, and occurs in layers meters to tens of meters thick” (Till and others, 2011). Unit Dcs of Till and others (2011) consists of pelitic, calcareous, and graphitic schist and typically does not outcrop; rather, it usually occurs as loose rubble on hills, or in stream cuts; in low areas unit is covered by tundra. Unit Ds, Till’s pelitic schist unit, forms tors of resistant, well-foliated quartz-rich schist; pelitic schist is the dominant lithology in this unit and calcareous schist is minor. This schist also contains chloritoid, and locally graphite, glaucophane, and garnet. Many detrital zircon samples collected from the Dcs unit contain small populations of Middle and Late Devonian zircons and large populations of early-middle Silurian zircons, as well as older populations (Till and others, 2006b, 2008b). Only a single sample from Ds yielded sufficient detrital zircons for analysis; the youngest zircon population contains grains that are Early to Middle Devonian (Till and others, 2006b). Till and others (2011) described a distinctive white to light gray, generally impure marble that occurs in small lenses within or adjacent to this unit in the Nome quadrangle. The clast-bearing marble typically contains sand- to pebble-size clasts of dark-gray to black, organic-rich marble. Most clast-bearing intervals appear to be clast-supported, some may be graded, and the clasts are rounded to angular, commonly laminated, and generally about 2 cm in diameter, though some are as big as 12 cm long. Two collections of conodonts having CAI values of 5 are known. “One collection yielded a single element of Silurian(?) through Triassic age. The other collection, also a single conodont, is an Sb element of late Permian through Triassic (likely Triassic) age” Till and others (2011). Till and others (2011) suggest that the Triassic marble was juxtaposed with the rocks of the Nome Complex prior to metamorphism and, therefore, chose to not extend the protolith age of the Nome Complex to Triassic; the Jurassic metamorphism of the unit (Armstrong and others, 1986) provides an upper limit for the age of the protolith of the unit