- Usage in publication:
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- Whigville Member
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
Whigville Member of the Taine Mountain Formation of Early(?) Ordovician age accepted in the Gneiss Dome belt of the Connecticut Valley synclinorium in CT.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Whigville Member
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gneiss
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
The Taine Mountain Formation of Stanley (1964) is here adopted in the Collinsville and Bristol quads., CT. Includes three pinstriped units, the Wildcat, Scranton Mountain, and Whigville Members of Stanley (1964), also adopted. Whigville Member consists of plagioclase-quartz gneiss marked by distinctive thin layering (pinstriping) of muscovite and biotite. Thickness is 3,000 ft. Overlies the Scranton Mountain Member; underlies the Bristol Gneiss (revised). The Taine Mountain correlates with the Savoy Schist of Emerson (1898), Missisquoi Schist or Group of Richardson (1919, 1924), in MA; and the Moretown Formation of Cady (1956) in MA and VT. Age is Middle Ordovician.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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