- Usage in publication:
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- Whitefield gneiss*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gneiss
- Granodiorite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
Included in Oliverian plutonic series. Probably named for town of Whitefield, Coos Co., northwestern NH. Consists of dark-gray, medium-grained, foliated biotite granodiorite gneiss. Age is Middle or Late Devonian(?).
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Whitefield Gneiss*
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- Geochronologic dating
- AAPG geologic province:
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- New England province
Summary:
Used as Whitefield Gneiss of Oliverian Plutonic Suite on 1:500,000-scale derivative map of plutons and sample localities used for isotopic dating. Not separately mapped in 1:250,000-scale geologic map. Isotopic age of 458 +/-8 Ma [Middle or Late Ordovician on time scale of Palmer (1983) where 458 is boundary between Middle and Late Ordovician] determined by Zartman and Leo (1985). Age of Oliverian Plutonic Suite on 1:250,000-scale map, however, is Late Ordovician and Silurian. Age of Whitefield, therefore, is Late Ordovician.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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