Pg. D32-D36. Woodbridge Granite. Oligoclase granite or sodic quartz diorite. Intruded Wepawaug Schist (new) before climax of progressive regional metamorphism in Devonian time.
Type locality: southwest corner of Mount Carmel quadrangle, New Haven Co., south-central CT. Named from Woodbridge.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 837).
Mapped in Mount Carmel quadrangle which contains type locality.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 837).
Pg. 15, geologic time scale (inside front cover). Woodbridge Granite (Devonian). Sample from [type area], Lat. 41 deg. 23 min. 00 sec. N., Long. 72 deg. 59 min. 35 sec. W., Mount Carmel quadrangle, New Haven County, Connecticut, yielded Pb-alpha age of 890 +/-100 Ma (zircon); too old [Precambrian Y to Z]. Age published by Fritts (1962); recalculated using decay constants of Steiger and Jager (Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, v. 36, p. 359-362, 1977).
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