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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tower Hill Quartzite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartzite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Goldsmith, Richard, Grew, E.S., Hepburn, J.C., and Robinson, G.R., 1982, Formation names in the Worcester area, Massachusetts, IN Stratigraphic notes, 1980-1982: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1529-H, p. H43-H56.


Summary:

The informal Tower Hill quartzite member of the Boylston Formation of Grew (1970), also called unit B of Grew (1973), is here named the Tower Hill Quartzite of the Merrimack Group in the Worcester area, MA. It consists of orthoquartzite with interlayered pelite and may represent a proximal facies laterally equivalent to the distal facies of the Worcester Formation. Overlies the Boylston Schist and underlies the Oakdale Formation. Age is probably Silurian based on a tentative correlation with rocks in central Maine.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tower Hill 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 Tower Hill Quartzite of Silurian age. Merrimack Group assignment not used.

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


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

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