Usage:
Fairlee Quartz Monzonite of Highlandcroft Plutonic Suite (NH*,VT*)
Geologic age:
Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: strikingly exposed on cliffs known as the Palisades in Fairlee, Orange Co., east-central VT (Hadley, 1950).
Probably named for Fairlee Twp., McCube quadrangle, Orange Co., northeastern VT, or some of the geographic Fairlee features within that twp (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896; Foyles and Richardson, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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