Subsurface identification of Merrimack, Putnam-Nashoba, and metavolcanic Avalon terrane rocks, and ductile to brittle fault rocks in the 1.45-kilometer-deep research hole, Moodus, Connecticut
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Published:January 01, 1990
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C. P. Ambers, R. P. Wintsch, 1990. "Subsurface identification of Merrimack, Putnam-Nashoba, and metavolcanic Avalon terrane rocks, and ductile to brittle fault rocks in the 1.45-kilometer-deep research hole, Moodus, Connecticut", Geology of the Composite Avalon Terrane of Southern New England, Anthony D. Socci, James W. Skehan, Geoffrey W. Smith
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All rock units, many fabrics, and two major faults mapped in the Hadlyme and Willimantic areas, Connecticut, are identified in a 1.45-km-deep research hole drilled at Moodus, Connecticut. Correlation of surface information and existing shallow drill-core data with the Moodus data was partially based on the description of core and cuttings from the deep hole, with supplemental chemical analyses, petrography, and a geochemical log. Rocks to a depth of 709.9 m are a mixture of quartz-diopside granofels and biotite-quartz-plagioclase schist identical to outcrops of Hebron Formation and are assigned to the Merrimack terrane. A 46.1-m section of biotite granitic gneiss...
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Geology of the Composite Avalon Terrane of Southern New England

GeoRef
- Avalon Zone
- biotite gneiss
- breccia
- brittle deformation
- chemical composition
- clastic rocks
- Connecticut
- cores
- cuttings
- deformation
- ductile deformation
- fabric
- faults
- gneisses
- granite gneiss
- Honey Hill Fault
- interpretation
- metamorphic rocks
- metavolcanic rocks
- mineral assemblages
- New London County Connecticut
- North America
- petrography
- petrology
- sedimentary rocks
- slickensides
- structural analysis
- structural geology
- United States
- zoning
- Moodus Connecticut
- Merrimack Terrane
- Canterbury Gneiss
- Tatnic Hill Formation
- Hebron Formation
- Mamacoke Formation
- Hadlyme Connecticut
- Hadlyme Formation
- Willimantic Connecticut
- Putnam-Nashoba Terrane
- Waterford Complex