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Geologic Unit: West Halifax
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  • Usage in publication:
    • West Halifax Trondhjemite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Trondhjemite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Ratcliffe, N.M., and Armstrong, T.R., 1999, Bedrock geologic map of the West Dover and Jacksonville quadrangles, Windham County, Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-2552, 2 sheets, 30 p., scale 1:24,000 [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/i/i2552]


Summary:

Named the West Halifax Trondhjemite of the North River Igneous Suite for village of West Halifax, Windham Co., southeastern VT. Consists of cream-weathered, light- to dark-gray, coarse-grained, equigranular, massive, ilmenite-chlorite-epidote-muscovite-quartz-plagioclase trondhjemite with hypidiomorphic texture. Unit is intrusive into all other North River Igneous Suite rocks and the Cram Hill Formation. The West Halifax is of Ordovician and Silurian(?) age, and is younger than the Cram Hill Formation and older than the Northfield Formation.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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