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Geologic Unit: Mansfield Hollow
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Mansfield Hollow lithofacies
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Wintsch, R.P., Webster, J.R., Bernitz, J.A., and Fout, J.S., 1990, Geochemical and geological criteria for the discrimination of high-grade gneisses of intrusive and extrusive origin, eastern Connecticut, IN Socci, A.D., Skehan, J.W., and Smith, G.W., eds., Geology of the composite Avalon terrane of southern New England: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 245, p. 187-208.


Summary:

Hadlyme Formation of Waterford Complex here defined in the Avalon terrane of eastern CT to include three extrusive volcanic facies: North Plain, Jennings Pond, and Mansfield Hollow lithofacies. Term lithofacies, rather than member, used to convey vertical or chemical continuity, not lateral continuity. Mansfield Hollow lithofacies described as light-gray-weathering plagioclase-quartz gneiss with conspicuous layering of dark hornblende and biotite, white to cream K-feldspar, and local amphibolite. Thickness varies from about 235 m to 650 m. Crops out around the Willimantic dome and in three small outliers to the south and west. Overlies Willimantic Gneiss; upper contact cut by Willimantic fault. Unit is relatively albitic and ranges from granodioritic to tonalitic to trondhjemitic.

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


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