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- Albany granite
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- Original reference
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- Granite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
btw. p. 508 and 545, and 1877 (Geol. New Hampshire, pt. 2, p. 143, etc.). Albany granite. Porphyritic granite spotted with rounded feldspars. Has been trachytic. Thickness 1,000 feet. Younger than Conway granite and older than Chocorua granite.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 24).
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- Albany granite
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
Pg. 21+, and 1901 (Yale Bi-Cen. Pub., Contrib. Min. and Petrog., p. 400-414). Albany granite is a spotted or trachytic eruptive granite, younger than Conway granite and younger than andalusite schist, and believed to be older than Concord granite. Named by Prof. Hitchcock on account of extensive development in Albany, New Hampshire. [In northern part of Carroll County, White Mountains, northern New Hampshire.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 24).
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- Albany group
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
Divided Albany group, as he called it, into 3 petrographic types, placed it as older than his Chocorua and Conway groups of granite, and included all in Devonian(?). In 1935 Billings assigned all these intrusives to late Devonian or late Carboniferous.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 24).
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- Albany granite
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
M. Billings, 1935 (letter dated Aug. 27). Albany granite belongs to White Mountain magma series.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 24).
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