 | | Report (volume) | | Quadrangle Rhode Island By GEORGE E. MOORE, JR. GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND GEOLOGICAL...State of Rhode Island Development Council UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1964...rocks______________________________________________ Rhode Island Formation____________________________________...rocks _____________________ -------_____ Narragansett Pier Granite__________________________________...1. Bedrock geology of the Kingston quadrangle: Rhode Island__ In pocket TABLE Page TABLE 1. Modes of |  | | Report (volume) | | Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and metamorphism of Narragansett basin sedimentary...age UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.G. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract---__-- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Progressive Metamorphism of Hypersolvus Granite, Rhode Island, USA Howard W. Day 1 and V.M. Brown 2 Department...California 95616, USA Department of Geology, University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA Abstract. The...The Scituate Granite in central Rhode Island, USA contains very coarse alkali feldspar mesoperthite...metamorphism of the Scituate Granite in central Rhode Island, USA. We attempt to show that the compositions...Massachusetts. BB Boston Basin. NB Narragansett Basin. b Sketch Map of Rhode Island. Heavy stipple. Scituate Granite |  | | Report (volume) | | Quadrangle Rhode Island :ly ROGER B. WILLIAMS }EOLOGY OF SELECTED QUAiDRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND JEOLOGICAL...~tate of Rhode Island Development r:louncil NITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. WASHINGTON : 1964...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract-------..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation, undifferentiated________________ Rhode Island Formation, argillaceous |  | | Report (issue) | | from bedrock at shallow depth. Fishers Island, Wicopesett Island, Napatree Point, and Sandy Point are...underlies most of western Rhode Island and extends westward in a Deit north of Long Island Sound to the vicinity...sequences of similar but poorly-dated rocks in Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts and in the western...in age. The Narragansett Pier Granite cuts strata of Pennsylvania age in the Narragansett Basin that unconformably...gneiss terrain of Rhode Island (Quinn, 1971, p. M-3). Although no Narragansett Pier Granite has been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minimum ages for the Pennsylvanian Section in the Narragansett Basin* P. M. HIJRLEY, H. W. FAIKBAIHX, W....in the Rhode Island and Wamsutta formations of Pennaylvsnian (Allegheny) age in the Narragansett Basin...Pennsylvanian sediments in the Narragansett Basin in Massachusetts and R,hode Island were deposited during an...of zircons from the crystalline rocks of t,he Rhode Island region by the lead-alpha method. The two groups...similar age. The ~ennsylval~iall rocks of the Narragansett Basin are about 12,000 ft thick (EMERSON, 1917 |  | | Report (issue) | | Ashaway and Voluntovm. quadrangles, Connecticut-Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger U.i S. Geological Survey...Rod Granite Gneiss ..............* 103 Narragansett Pier Granite ............... 105 Ifhite facies...veins, and dikes and their significance in the Rhode Island batholith and adjacent rocks ....... 184 Structural...sections V. Structural details of a part of the Rhode Island batholith in the Voluntown quadrangle VI. Form............ 148 31 Modal analyses of Harragansett Pier Granite on Q-P-M triangle .................. 149 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Peabody, Quincy) and the Rhode Island subalkaline group (Narragansett Pier, Westerly). Analyses for three...abundances vary considerably (factor of 2) in both Rhode Island granites. Zr and I-I_fare heterogeneously distributed...Depletion of Tb, Dy, Yb, Lu, Zr, Hf and Ta in the Rhode Island granites suggest participation of zircon or...contrasted with the subalkaline Narragansett Pier and Westerly granites of Rhode Island (Fig. 1). For alkaline...Massachusetts and Rhode Island showing location of Cape Ann, Peabody, Quincy and Narragansett Pier granites. |  | | Report (issue) | | Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...(2) barometric pressure; and (3) temperature. Washington and Rose (1990) suggest that temperature-controlled |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 R. D. BALLARD Woods Hole Oceanographic...is exposed in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as in the Maritime Provinces to the...granites and calc-alkalic Narragansett Pier and Westerly granites of southern Rhode Island, one must go east...the grid twinning of microcline, and we suspect that the low-albite microcline perthite may have inverted...Values are percent by volume. X = present, Mic. = microcline, Vn. = vein, herr. = her ringbone pattern; C |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Chepachet Quadrangle Providence County Rhode Island By ALONZO W. QUINN CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL...State of Rhode Island Development Council JNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1967...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Abstract_ _ ______________________...map of the Chepachet quadrangle, Providence County, Rhode Island____-_____________._____ In pocket FIGURE...GEOLOGY OF THE CHEPACHET QUADRANGLE PROVIDENCE COUNTY, RHODE ISLAND By ALONZO W. QUINN ABSTRACT Tbe Chepachet |  | | Report (issue) | | Gneiss than to the Permian Westerly and Narraganssett Pier Granites, which have distinctly high barium and...tilted uplift of the coastal belt parallel to Long Island Sound (Dixon and Lundgren, 1968, p. 229; Rodgers...terrane in Massachusetts (Bloody Bluff fault) and Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut (Lake Char fault) into...written commun., 1981) and the discordant Narragansett Pier and Westerly Granites of Permian age. The...The latter, extensive in adjacent southern Rhode Island, form only small masses and dikes in the New London |  | | Report (volume) | | ~rompton Quadrangle ~bode Island EOLOGY OF SELECfED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND ' ALONZO W. QUINN EOLOGICAL...State of Rhode Island, >evelopment Council ~ITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1963...of Documents, u.s. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract______...the Narragansett basin_________ Pondville Conglomerate____________________________________ Rhode Island...map and sections of the Crompton quadrangle, Rhode Island------------------------------------------------ |  | | Report (issue) | | Precambrian Fourchu Group of southeastern Cape Breton Island (Keppie and others, 1979). Hornblende gabbros (Eden...Avalon terrane have included those of a pre-Iapetus island arc (Rast and others, 1976), an aborted rifting...records northwestward subduction beneath a cratonic island arc (Cape Breton terrane), and the development...Devonian plutonic terrane within the Avalon zone of Rhode Island: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v....Fourchu Group in the Louisbourg area, Cape Breton Island: Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Paper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 40Ar/39Ar mineral ages from the Scituate Granite, Rhode Island: implications for late Palaeozoic tectonothermal...30602, USA 0 . D . HERMES Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881...02881, USA J . I . GIL-IBARGUCHI Departmento de Mineralogia-Petrologia, Universidad de Pals Vasco, Bilbao...(K-Ar hornblende), 308-254 Ma (K-Ar biotite); 6. Rhode Island Qunicy Granite (Cumberland Complex), 235-188...emplacement age (Zartman & Hermes, 1987) of the Narragansett Pier Granite which truncates the shear zone (Getty |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hope Valley shear zone, New England Appalachians, USA S. R. GARLICK AND L. P. GROMET Department of Geological...Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA (l_gromet@brown.edu) ABSTRACT Field, petrographic...along the Hope Valley shear zone in southern Rhode Island indicate that late Palaeozoic deformation (c...Scituate granite gneiss of western and central Rhode Island. The Hope Valley terrane contains Late Proterozoic...Esmond-Dedham Terrane Boston MA CT 42Β°N HVSZ Narragansett basin RI MA Providence WD Scituate granite |  | | Report (issue) | | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $3.25 CONTENTS HYDROLOGIC...distribution of the Westerly and Narragansett Pier Granites in Rhode Island and Connecticut, by Tomas Fe...and rodingite in Hunting Hill quarry, Montgomery County, Md. A summary, by D. M. Larrabee. _______ Accessory...ages of some igneous rocks in northern Stevens County, Wash., by R. G. Yates and J. C. Engel~_____- |  | | Book | | Geology & Geophysics Geology, University of Rhode Island Science, Bentley College Earth Sciences & Geography...Hingham, Massachusetts Geology, University of Rhode Island Earth Sciences & Geography, Bridgewater State...and Development of Plum Island, Massachusetts: An Example of a Barrier Island System by J. Richard Jones...Coal Stratigraphy and Flora of the Northwestern Narragansett Basin by Paul C. Lyons and Harry B. Chase B-18...Pre-Pennsylvanian Rocks of Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands, Rhode Island by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay and William M. Chappie |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917............................................... Washington gneiss......,- .................................................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...formation......................................... Rhode Island.......................................................................................... Narragansett Basin (including the Norfolk Basin)........ |  | | Report (volume) | | Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D.C. - Price 30 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS...Santa Fe group, sec. 17, T.19N., R.9E., Santa Fe County, N. Mex. R. S. Cannon, Jr., R. L. Smith. ____.do__-______...Aztec wash, 4 miles southeast of Nelson, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. _-__.do__. -----P-2-cc. NEM...miles northeast of center of Boulder City, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. Granodiorite_ _______ _ _____ |  | | Report (issue) | | plants of Pennsylvanian age from northwestern Narragansett basin 55 Wy FUSS ae John Oleksyshyn Early Pennsylvanian...Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in central Aroostook County, Maine eee re il. C20 ea Tt Dorothy A. Richter... Borns Nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits, Knox County, southeastern Maine Er it atte era (Seale 8 George...was born the second youngest of six children in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 1908. His early childhood...alkalic granite of eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island and another on a chemically related volcanic |  | | Report (issue) | | separately UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1991 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...bedrock map (which also showed the geology of Rhode Island) was published in 1917 by Benjamin K. Emerson...Emerson, B.K., 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 597, 289 p...metavolcanic rocks older than the Proterozoic Z Rhode Island and Dedham batholiths.......... Rocks possibly...Conglomerate (Pp), Wamsutta Formation (Pw, Pwv), Rhode Island Formation (Pr, Prc), and Dighton Conglomerate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The mineral pairs sillimanite-muscovite and microcline-muscovite are found in a variety of stratigraphic...a matrix in which muscovite, oligoclase, and microcline generally are found together. Sillimanite in...in the nodules is not found in contact with microcline of the surrounding matrix. South of the isograd...Muscovite-sillimanite-quartz nodules in muscovite-microcline-plagioclase matrix (sample no. 39; NE. quarter...mineral names are the same as in Fig. 3. Also, Mi, microcline; PI, plagioclase distinguished by cross-hatched |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hope Valley Shear Zone, southeastern Massachusetts, USA David M. Wayne*, A. Krishna Sinha, and David A. Hewitt...Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA Received August 6, 1990 / Accepted July 1, 1991 Abstract...Valley Shear Zone; SG, Scituate Granite; NPG, Narragansett Pier Granite. The locality for this study is denoted...intrusive relationship of the undeformed, Permian Narragansett Pier granite (zircon U-Pb age of 273 Ma, Zartman...gm plagioclase (31~35%), quartz (27-32%) and microcline (34-37%), with accessory hornblende (0.5-2%) |  | | Report (volume) | | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1972 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.c. 20402- Price $4.50 (paper cover) Stock...with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental...kyanite, and sillimanite from the Narragansett basin of Rhode Island, by E. S. Grew and H. 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