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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hinsdale Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Greene, R.C., 1995, Talc resources of the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OF-95-586, 178 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:5,000,000)


Summary:

Advance copy. Hinsdale Gneiss. Talc deposit is enclosed by Middle Proterozoic biotite gneiss previously called Hinsdale Biotite Gneiss and Becket Granite Gneiss by Chute (1969, USGS Open-File Report 1217).

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


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