Usage:
Ten Rod Granite Gneiss of Sterling Plutonic Suite (CT*,RI*)
Ten Rod Granite Gneiss (CT,RI)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Roadcut on Ten Rod Road, 0.85 mi west of Millville, Hope Valley quadrangle, Washington Co., southwestern RI. Exposed in discontinuous belt of varying width that extends northwesterly across quadrangle from vicinity of Richmond School (Moore, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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