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  • Usage in publication:
    • Durkee Hill greenstones
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Greenstone
    • Schist
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Doll, C.G., 1944, A preliminary report on the geology of the Strafford quadrangle, Vermont, IN Jacobs, E.C., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries of Vermont, 1943-1944: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 24th, p. 14-28., [1945]


Summary:

Named the Durkee Hill greenstones for Durkee Hill, Strafford quadrangle, VT. Consists of a complex of gray to green to black basic and ultrabasic, massive and schistose, fine- to coarse-grained intrusives and volcanics and prominent chlorite schist. Light-gray feldspathic gneiss occurs irregularly among the greenstones. The Durkee Hill is of Late Devonian or post-Devonian age.

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


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