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  • Usage in publication:
    • Sandy Pond Amphibolite Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Goldsmith, Richard, 1980, Stratigraphic names in the New London area, southeastern Connecticut; a revision, IN Sohl, N.F., and Wright, W.B., Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1979: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1502-A, p. A91-A103.


Summary:

By inference due to age change of Marlboro Formation, age of Sandy Pond Amphibolite Member changed from pre-Silurian (Precambrian Z(?) to early Paleozoic) of Bell and Alvord (1976) to Proterozoic Z, Cambrian, or Ordovician based on radiometric age determinations and stratigraphic relations [not clearly explained].

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Sandy Pond Amphibolite Member
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province

Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Sandy Pond Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Goldsmith, Richard, 1991, Stratigraphy of the Nashoba zone, eastern Massachusetts; An enigmatic terrane, IN Hatch, N.L., Jr., ed., The bedrock geology of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1366-F, 22 p.


Summary:

Used as Sandy Pond Member [inadvertently used, should have been Sandy Pond Amphibolite Member] of Marlboro Formation in Nashoba zone. Bell and Alvord (1976) divided the Marlboro into an unnamed lower member of mica schist, calc-silicate rock, marble, and amphibolite, and the upper Sandy Pond [Amphibolite] Member. Skehan and Abu-Moustafa (1976) divided Marlboro into 31 unnamed members (M1-M31) based on mapping in the Wachusett-Marlborough tunnel; most of the amphibolite is in lower part of the section, compared with Bell and Alvord's mapping. Hepburn and DiNitto (1978) and Hepburn (1978) recognized four divisions based on mapping of surface rocks above the tunnel in Marlborough and Shrewsbury area; one of their divisions is the [informal] Sandy Pond amphibolite member, which coincides with Bell and Alvord's Sandy Pond and with amphibolitic lower part (units M1-M16) of Skehan and Moustafa's section. It appears that all three amphibolites are equivalent. Age is Proterozoic Z or Ordovician, although author believes that majority of metasedimentary rocks in Nashoba zone are Proterozoic. [No formal age change made in this report. Does not explain why Sandy Pond was not used on MA State bedrock map of Zen and others, even though chapters A-J in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1366 are intended as explanations and (or) revisions to 1:250,000-scale MA State bedrock geologic map of Zen and others (1983).]

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


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