Geolex — GreenMountain publications

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Geologic Unit: Green Mountain

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Original reference
Dominant lithology:
- Gneiss
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Adams, C.B., 1845, Scientific geology, IN Adams, C.B., First annual report on the geology of the State of Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 1st, p. 60-62.

Summary:

[Green Mountain gneiss is listed as next to oldest formation in Vermont, lying below talcose slate and above "gneiss proper."]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Overview
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Adams, C.B., 1846, Second annual report on the geology of the State of Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 2nd, 267 p.

Summary:

Mentioned "the gneissoid mica slate or Green Mountain gneiss."

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Mapped
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Hager, A.D., 1861, Geological map of Plymouth [southwestern Vermont], IN Hitchcock, Edward, and others, Report on the geology of Vermont; descriptive, theoretical, economical, and scenographical: Vermont Geological Survey, v. 2, pl. 18.

Summary:

Mapped Green Mountain gneiss.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain series
Modifications:
- Age modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Dana, J.D., 1872, On the quartzite, limestone, and associated rocks of the vicinity of Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 4, no. 23, p. 362-370.

Summary:

Pg. 370. The so-called "Green Mountain series" has been pronounced on lithological evidence to be pre-Silurian and Huronian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Overview
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Dana, J.D., 1877, An account of the discoveries in Vermont geology of the Reverend Augustus Wing: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 13, nos. 77-78, p. 332-347, 405-419.

Summary:

A. Wing, v. 13, p. 334-347, 404-419. Showed oldest formation of western Vermont as "gneiss, often called Green Mountain gneiss."

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Age modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Hitchcock, C.H., 1877, The geology of New Hampshire; a report comprising the results of explorations ordered by the legislature; Part II, Stratigraphical geology: New Hampshire Geological and Mineralogical Survey, 684 p.

Summary:

Pg. 464. The Green Mountain gneiss underlies the green schists in Green Mountains. The Green Mountains are not Huronian but are flanked by it on both sides in northern half of Vermont. They belong to Montalban series and are nearer the Laurentian than the Huronian. The use by Dr. Hunt in 1871 of Green Mountains gneiss for the Huronian is improper and inappropriate.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain series
Modifications:
- Areal extent
- Age modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Perkins, G.H., 1910, Geology of the Burlington quadrangle, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of certain areas of Vermont, 1909-1910: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 7th, p. 249-256.

Summary:

Pg. 249-256. Green Mountain series (of gneisses, schists, etc.) covers eastern part of Burlington quadrangle, Vermont. I believe they are made of Cambrian and Ordovician strata.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain
Modifications:
- Age modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Perkins, G.H., 1912, A general account of the geology of the Green Mounain region, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of Vermont, 1911-1912: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 8th, p. 17-100.

Summary:

Pg. 21-56. The foundation of Green Mountains is of Algonkian age. Archean may be represented in axis of Green Mountains.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Age modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Richardson, C.H., Brainerd, A.E., and Jones, D.J., 1914, The geology and mineralogy of hardwick and Woodbury, Vermont, IN Perkins, G.H., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries and geology of Vermont, 1913-1914: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 9th, p. 294-336.

Summary:

Pg. 305-313. Assigned Green Mountain gneiss to Algonkian; also in 11th Rpt. Vermont State Geol.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Age Modified
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Foyles, E.J., and Richardson, C.H., 1929, Rock correlation studies in west-central 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. 281-289.

Summary:

Assigned Green Mountain gneiss to Lower Cambrian, Upper Cambrian, and Beekmantown (Lower Ordovician).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain gneiss
Modifications:
- Overview
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1936) on rocks of New England], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.

Summary:

On 1932 geologic map of the U.S. the rocks of Green Mountains, Vermont, are mapped as Archean gneiss and Algonkian(?) sedimentary schists.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 871).

Usage in publication:
- Green Mountain series
Modifications:
- Overview
AAPG geologic province:
- New England province

Publication:

Jacobs, E.C., 1938, Geology of the Green Mountains of northern Vermont, IN Jacobs, E.C., Report of the State Geologist on the mineral industries of Vermont, 1937-1938: Vermont Geological Survey [Report of the State Geologist], 21st, p. 1-73.

Summary:

Pg. 36-37. Age of the Green Mountain series is Precambrian.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1603-1604).

For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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