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Dolomite marble (VTY?dm;0)

Geologic Formation near Mount Tabor, VT

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Marble

Schist

Geologic Age

Calymmian – Ectasian (1600 Ma – 1200 Ma ago)

Geologic Unit Label

Y?dm

Beige to pinkish-gray-weathering, pyrite-bearing, medium- and fine-grained phlogopite-chlorite-dolomite marble exposed in cliffs east of the road at Devils Den. Grades into chlorite-biotite (±actinolite)-carbonate schist at structural base and has sharp contact with structurally overlying quartzite (Y?q). Mount Holly Complex paragneiss. Rocks of the Green Mountain and Lincoln Mountain massifs and eastern domes. Unit is part of the Problematic rocks at Devils Den in Weston and Danby areas: Near Devils Den and Moses Pond includes albitic biotite-muscovite schist, chloritoid-chlorite-muscovite (±garnet) schist, dolomite marble and minor quartzite which resemble rocks of the Tyson Formation, and retrograde varieties of the paragneisses of the Mount Holly Complex. Because these rocks are structurally compatible with Grenvillian or older folds in the Mount Holly Complex and are transitional into rocks of the Mount Holly Complex, a Mesoproterozoic age is favored. Nevertheless the resemblance to rocks of the Tyson Formation is striking.

— USGS

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