Browse Map

Explore away

Explore Map Collection

Check out our basemaps

Print a Map Plus

Generate a high-quality PDF

Field Guide

Discover local flora, fauna, geology, and more

Local Flora & Fauna

Learn the ecology of your area

Local Geology

Learn the geologic formation at your feet

Get Started or Sign In

Welcome

Continue with Apple

Already have an account? Sign In

MAP

Topo

Measure

Topo

Ecoregions

Public Lands

...

BASEMAPS

Default Weather

Temperature

Smoke

...

WEATHER

Manhattan Schist

Geologic Formation in NJ, NY, CT

Print Map

Generate High-Quality PDF

Lithology

Gneiss

Amphibolite

Other (9 mi²)

Geologic Age

Cambrian (542 Ma – 487.3 Ma ago) (125 mi²)

Neoproterozoic – Early Cambrian (1000 Ma – 521 Ma ago) (9 mi²)

Geologic Unit Label

CAm (101 mi²)

CAma (24 mi²)

CAZm0 (9 mi²)

Dark-gray to silvery, rusty-weathering, generally coarse grained, foliated but poorly layered to massive gneiss or schistose gneiss, composed of quartz, oligoclase, microcline, biotite, and muscovite, and generally sillimanite and garnet. Amphibolite layers locally, especially near base where in places separately mapped as unit CAma. Cambrian Manhattan Schist in this report includes four informal members: Warren member, garnetiferous biotite schist member, Shepaug member, and schistose granulite member. The Warren member occurs only in the Above All thrust sheet, the Shepaug member only in the Rabbit Hill thrust sheet. The schist member occurs in both. The granulite member occurs in the Rabbit Hill thrust sheet and the Lake Waramaug thrust sheet. The Warren includes mainly interbedded, dark-gray, muscovite-garnet-chlorite-plagioclase-biotite-quartz schist, amphibolite lenses, siliceous granulite, and finely-layered schistose gneiss. The Shepaug consists of interbedded orthoclase-garnet-plagioclase-biotite-quartz schistose gneiss, rusty-weathering, schistose gneisses and schists with sillimanite rods, and subordinate granulite beds with sillimanite nodules similar to those in the schistose granulite member (Panish, 1992).

— USGS

Taxonomy

Classified As

Geologic Formation