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  • Usage in publication:
    • Woonasquatucket Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Overview
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
    • Schist
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • New England province
Publication:

Skehan, J.W., and Rast, Nicholas, 1990, Pre-Mesozoic evolution of Avalon terranes of southern New England, IN Socci, A.D., Skehan, J.W., and Smith, G.W., eds., Geology of the composite Avalon terrane of southern New England: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 245, p. 13-53.


Summary:

Woonasquatucket Formation is here assigned to Harmony Complex along with underlying Absalona Formation and intrusive(?) Nipsachuck Gneiss. Described as mainly light gray, medium-grained, indistinctly foliated and layered gneiss and schist. Contains large, round grains of blue quartz and phenocrysts of microperthite.

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


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