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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • [Principal reference]
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartzite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Emerson, B.K., 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 597, 289 p.


Summary:

Pg. 32-34 and map. Cheshire quartzite. A granular quartz rock of very massive habit, rather fine and even grain, and colorless or slightly iron tinted. In places very feldspathic. Grades into underlying Dalton formation and is overlain by Stockbridge limestone. Shown as Lower Cambrian on map correlation chart. [This is present approved definition of Cheshire.]
Probably named for typical exposures at or near Cheshire, Berkshire Co., western MA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 420); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Jacobs, E.C., 1935, Vermont peneplain [abs.]: Geological Society of America Proceedings, 1934, p. 85.


Summary:

In Green Mountains, westernmost nappe is made up of Cheshire quartzite, of Lower Cambrian age, infolded with a fine-grained graywacke, which has been traced from Essex Junction into southern Quebec, where it is known as Gilman "quartzite." In Vermont, this rock has been named Brigham Hill graywacke.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 479, 753).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Jacobs, E.C., 1937, Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries of Vermont, 1935-36: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 20th, 155 p., [1937]


Summary:

Pg. 100-101. Includes Brigham Hill graywacke phase.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 753).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Hawkes, H.E., 1941, Roots of the Taconic fault in west-central Vermont: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 52, no. 5, p. 649-666.


Summary:

Pg. 649-666. Concluded that roots of Taconic thrust fault most probably lie between dolomite of Pico Peak series (new) and Cheshire quartzite.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 753).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Herz, Norman, 1958, Bedrock geology of the Cheshire quadrangle, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-108, 1 sheet, scale 1:31,680


Summary:

Cheshire quartzite described as fine- to medium-grained, massive white quartzite grading downward into fissile muscovite quartzite; contains friable kaolinitized quartzite at its top. Crops out as a band around Hinsdale gneiss and Dalton formation on North Mountain. Underlies highest hills in southeast part of quad, including The Cobbles in town of Cheshire. Lower contact is gradational with Dalton; upper contact is marked by kaolinitized quartzite.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Knopf, E.B., 1962, Stratigraphy and structure of the Stissing Mountain area, Dutchess County, New York: Stanford University Publications, Geological Sciences, v. 7, no. 1, 55 p.


Summary:

The correlation between the quartzite at Stissing Mountain, Dutchess County, New York, and quartzite at Poughquag [the Poughquag Quartzite] is much better supported than the correlation between quartzite at Stissing Mountain and quartzite of western Massachusetts [Cheshire Quartzite]. Therefore, the name Poughquag Quartzite is preferred rather than Cheshire Quartzite in eastern New York.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Ratcliffe, N.M., and Harwood, D.S., 1975, Blastomylonites associated with recumbent folds and overthrusts at the western edge of the Berkshire massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts; a preliminary report, IN Tectonic studies of the Berkshire Massif, western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 888-A, p. A1-A19.


Summary:

Rocks mapped as Cheshire Quartzite and Dalton Formation, undivided, are shown in figure 1 as present in Connecticut, thus extending the Cheshire from Masachusetts to Connecticut.
[GNU staff remark (1990): there seems to be some confusion as to the presence of Cheshire in CT. Harwood (1979) subsequently mapped in the same area in the South Sandisfield 7.5-min quad and shows no Cheshire in CT. Although Ratcliffe mapped the Ashley Falls quad to the immediate west, the map was never published and it may have shown Cheshire in CT. The only proof of Cheshire in CT found as of this date is on the overlapping parts of the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts by Zen and others (1983), and a very small part of Cheshire near the State border on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Connecticut by Rodgers (1985). No large-scale maps show Cheshire in CT.]

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Zen, E-an (editor), Goldsmith, Richard (compiler), Ratcliffe, N.M. (compiler), Robinson, Peter (compiler), Stanley, R.S. (compiler), Hatch, N.L., Jr., Shride, A.F., Weed, E.G.A., and Wones, D.R., 1983, Bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey [State Geologic Map], 3 sheets, scale 1:250,000


Summary:

Used as Cheshire Quartzite of Early Cambrian age. Consists of white, massive, vitreous quartzite. Small part shown in adjacent area of northern Connecticut on this map. [See also entry for Cheshire under Ratcliffe and Harwood (1975).]

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cheshire Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Thompson, J.B., Jr., 1990, An introduction to the geology and Paleozoic history of the Glens Falls 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, IN Slack, J.F., ed., Summary results of the Glens Falls CUSMAP project, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1887-A, p. A1-A13.


Summary:

Stratigraphic succession in Middlebury synclinorium in north-central part of Glens Falls quadrangle consists of (ascending) Late Proterozoic Dalton Formation and Pinnacle Formation, Lower Cambrian Cheshire Quartzite, Lower and Middle Cambrian dolomites (Rutland Dolomite, Dunham Dolomite as used by Cady (1945), Winooski Dolomite) with minor quartzite (Monkton Formation), and Upper Cambrian Danby Formation. Middlebury synclinorium is considered a parautochthonous shelf sequence.

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


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

Condon, R.K., 1993, South Mountain structure and stratigraphy, Bristol, Vermont [abs.]: The Green Mountain Geologist, v. 20, no. 1, p. 6.


Summary:

Mapping in Bristol Notch and along the Green Mountain front indicate that the Cheshire Quartzite appears to be at least 2500 feet thick, which is about 2.5 times the original estimated thickness to the north and south. Near the base, the Cheshire is a massive argillaceous feldspathic meta-sandstone, containing recrystallized quartz and K-feldspar in a muscovite and biotite matrix. These lithologies grade upward through medium to thick-bedded schistose feldspathic meta-sandstones to clean, massive 'quartzites' of the Green Mountain front. Rocks currently mapped as the eastern-most Cheshire Quartzite probably belong to the Pinnacle Formation and are in fault contact with the Cheshire.

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


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