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  • Usage in publication:
    • Brattleboro phyllite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Phyllite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Richardson, C.H., 1929, The geology and petrography of Reading, Cavendish, Baltimore, and Chester, Vermont, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of Vermont, 1927-1928: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 16th, p. 208-246.


Summary:

Pg. 232. Brattleboro phyllite. Includes all phyllites that flank Cavendish schist and Reading gneiss on east of Reading, Cavendish, Baltimore, and Chester. Its home is in Springfield, Rockingham, Putney, Brattleboro, Guilford, and Vernon, and southward into Massachusetts. Is youngest formation in southeast Vermont. Assigned to Ordovician. Named because Brattleboro Township [Windsor County, southeastern Vermont] is practically all covered with a fine-grained graphitic phyllite schist. Brattleboro phyllite and the older Randolph phyllite are interstratified with Waits River limestone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 254).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Brattleboro phyllite
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Richardson, C.H., 1931, The areal and structural geology of Springfield, Vermont, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of Vermont, 1929-1930: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 17th, p. 193-212.


Summary:

Pg. 192-211. Brattleboro phyllite may be time equivalent of Randolph phyllite. Belongs to Memphremagog group. Age is Ordovician.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 254).


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