West Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA

Age: Late Devonian (358.9 - 382.7 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Scituate Igneous Suite

Description: Gray to pink, medium- to coarse-grained, porphyritic to subporphyritic alkali-feldspar granite (phenocrysts of perthite). Contains perthite, quartz, and accessory biotite, hornblende, and lesser riebeckite, aegerine, zircon, allanite, sphene, fluorite, and opaque minerals. Plagioclase is sparse to absent. Secondary muscovite, chlorite, and calcite. Ovoid clots of mafic and accessory minerals are locally prominent. Rock is a hypersolvus, mildly peralkaline granite. Fabric ranges from massive to locally lineated and foliated. Includes rock mapped formerly in part as Scituate Granite Gneiss, Cowesett Granite, and perthitic Cowesett Granite.

Comments: Part of Esmond-Dedham Subterrane (West Bay Area). The name Scituate Granite Gneiss is no longer appropriate because the type Scituate of Quinn (1971) at Scituate, RI, has been shown by Hermes and others (1981) and Hermes and Zartman (1985) to be Middle Devonian, based on isotopic age of 373 +/-7 Ma; it is part of an unnamed Devonian alkalic suite. Scituate of type area in central RI described by Quinn (1971) is here renamed Scituate Granite and assigned a Middle Devonian age (Wones and Goldsmith, 1991) per RI004. Per printed map: age of rock based on radiometric data from RI005 and RI009.

Lithology: Major:{alkali feldspar granite}

Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133]

Age: Neoproterozoic (541 - 1000 Ma)

Lithology: Orthogneiss/paragneiss/metavolcanic gneiss

Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]