 | | Report (issue) | | Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedham Zone, Eastern |  | | Report (issue) | | Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E. |  | | Report (volume) | | the ."Norwood Quadrangle ' Norfolk and Suffolk , Counties, Massachusetts By NEWTON E. CHUTE > GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN MASSACHUSETTS ^ ______________________________________________________________________...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ^ Department of Public Works UNITED STATES...-------.____.___. Newburyport Quartz Diorite__------_---_-._____________ Dedham Granodiorite.--.---__----...IN MASSACHUSETTS GEOLOGY OF THE NORWOOD QUADRANGLE, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES, MASSACHUSETTS By |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...granitic gneiss with a composition approximating quartz 11 monzonite. 12 rock is locally hydrothermally...coarse-grained equigranular to locally porphyritic, chiefly quartz monzonite, but ranging from granite to granodiorite |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...episodes recorded in the Hope Valley and Edmond-Dedham terranes of southeastern New England, presently |  | | Report (issue) | | April 1978 Prepared in co-operation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works PRELIMINARY LIST...geochemistry of the Nashoba Formation, east*-central Massachusetts, in Lyons,, P.C., and Brownlow, Arthur, Editors...and Bloody Bluff fault zones, northeastern Massachusetts: U.S. Geol. Survey Jour, of Research, v. 4,...mapped metamorphic rock units in northeastern Massachusetts. Barosh, P.J., Fahey, R.J., Pease, M.H., Jr... Pre-silurian Stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts: Geol. Soc. America Mem. 148, pp. 179~2l6. A |  | | Report (volume) | | Formations in the Natick Quadrangle, Eastern Massachusetts, and Their Tentative Correlations With Recks...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Works BULLETIN 1395-E...Formations in the Natick Quadrangle, Eastern Massachusetts, and Their Tentative Correlations With Rocks...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Works Three formations...Paleozic(f) sedimentary and volcanic rocks in eastern Massachusetts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE |  | | Report (volume) | | SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Pnnipelly, J. E. Wolff, and T. Nelson |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 839 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AREA MASSACHUSETTS BY LAURENCE LAFORGE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...---------------.Newburyport quartz diorite._----_-_-__________________ Dedham granodiorite.____---_----...geology of the Boston and Boston Bay quadrangles, Massachusetts--____-.-_____ In pocket. 2. Map showing surficial...-----------81 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AEEA, MASSACHUSETTS By LAURENCE LAFORGE INTRODUCTION* POSITION AND...30' and extends westward from the shore of Massachusetts Bay to meridian 71° 15', comprises the Boston |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County..................................................calcareous rocks............................... Quartz-hornblende schists................................................................. Newburyport quartz diorite................................ Distribution...relations.-.................................... ' Dedham granodiorite.................................. |  | | Report (volume) | | OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................ |  | | Report (issue) | | so-called Pennsylvanian basins of southeastern Massachusetts. Three papers deal with the geology of alkali...alkali plutonic-volcanic areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite)...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the papers...and the geology of the Ayer Granodiorite of Massachusetts. JOHN R,. GRIFELN STUDIES IN NEW ENGLAND...Brownlow V1 Vil iX Part I. Geology of eastern Massachusetts INaTOROVGNNE TON “5. B bo 8 OR Bo ee ek 5 ee |  | | Book | | V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP of fhe. /=zh NORFOLK SELL IS(^HAM ° HARVARD CONGLOMERATE andL SCI...I 5 iiJ DIORITE ANDOVER QUARTZ QU/NCY SHARON GRANITE SYEN/TE DIORiTE ^, ^^^...Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S |  | | Report (volume) | | Structural Dislocations in Eastern Massachusetts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1410 Structural Dislocations...Dislocations in Eastern Massachusetts By ROBERT O. CASTLE, H. ROBERTA DIXON, EDWARD S. GREW, ANDREW GRISCOM...faults and mylonite zones that form the eastern Massachusetts dislocation belt UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...under title: Structural dislocations in eastern Massachusetts. (Geological Survey Bulletin 1410) Bibliography:...119.3:1410 1. Faults (Geology) Massachusetts. 2. Mylonite Massachusetts. I. Castle, Robert O. II. Series: |  | Fairbairn, H.W., Moorbath, S., Ramo, A.O., Pinson, W.H., Hurley, P.M. (1967) Rb-Sr age of granitic rocks of southeastern massachusetts and the age of the lower cambrian at Hoppin Hill. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2 (4) 321-328 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(67)90149-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | N I T I C ROCKS OF S O U T H E A S T E R N MASSACHUSETTS A N D T H E AGE OF THE L O W E R C A M B R I...and Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Received 22 May...southeastern Massachusetts gives isochron ages and initial 87Sr/86Sr as follows: Dedham - 591 ± 28 m...Hill exposure, near the much m o r e extensive Dedham granodiorite, lies unconformably beneath Lower...t h A t t l e b o r o in s o u t h eastern Massachusetts, Lower Cambrian sedim e n t a r y r o c k s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WILLIAM H. DENNEN IMPURITIES IN QUARTZ Abstract: The impurity content of quartz—substitutional elements plus...allow correlation within the same Introduction Quartz is known to contain small but variable amounts...substituted or interstitial ions, but since most quartz is also crowded with microscopic inclusions, published...crystalline material wherein foreign matter is minimal. Quartz formed under particular environmental conditions...characteristic level of foreign matter. Such "dirty" quartz is the subject of the following study, and all |  | | Report (volume) | | H33 6. Formation names in the Worcester area, Massachusetts, by Richard Goldsmith, Edward S. Grew, 3. Christopher........H43 7. Stratigraphic names in eastern Massachusetts and adjacent States, by Richard Goldsmith, David...Section of south wall of Lynn Griffin mine //I, Henry County, Ala., type locality of Baker Hill Format ion....H28 9. Core-hole section at Highland Park, Henry County, Ala., lithologies of the farthest downdip part...the east flank of the Merrimack synclinorium, Massachusetts and New Hamp shire.................... .... |  | | Report (issue) | | POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...least likely to cause radon problems include marine quartz sands, non-carbonaceous shales and siltstones, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA 0 . D . HERMES Department of Geology, University...University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA J . I . GIL-IBARGUCHI Departmento de Mineralogia-Petrologia...crystalline sequences within the New England Esmond-Dedham terrane in the Late Devonian (c. 370 Ma). Variably...which they termed the Esmond-Dedham and Hope Valley terranes. The Esmond-Dedham terrane is characterized...within several basins developed within the Esmond-Dedham terrane. By contrast, the Hope Valley terrane is |  | | Report (issue) | | Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts forms a distinctive block separated from the...but a thick section of porphyritic diorites to quartz monzonites. Stratigreen and purple slate, graywacke...Fullagar and Odom (1973) for similar rocks in Grayson, County, Va., although Rankin and opening of the lapetus...and Odom (1973) published three Rb-Sr itic rocks (quartz monzonite to diorite) predominate whole-rock-isochron...overprint is relatively tauga County, N.C., and eastern Johnson County, Tenn., minor, the older basement |  | | Report (chapter) | | The Squantum Member of the Boston Basin, Massachusetts, USA SHANNON L. CARTO* & NICK EYLES Department...is located in the Boston Basin in eastern Massachusetts, USA. The Boston Basin forms part of the Avalonia...the Neoproterozoic Boston Basin in eastern Massachusetts, USA (Figs 43.1 & 43.2). It is formally known...coastal cliffs at Squantum Head in Quincy, Massachusetts, in the southern part of the Basin (718000 W...a M Boston Squantum Head N Boston Basin, Massachusetts Nantasket 50 km R.I. ss. Ma n. Con 36’N |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black sands are garnet, hematite, mercury, olivine, quartz, iron silicates, pyrite, monazite, copper, cinnabar...3-cornered, some pitted) and consists chiefly of quartz (brownish, colorless, smoky gray ; gray chalcedony)...zircon (fluoresces orange), etc. Esker Sand From Massachusetts Arnold M. Dixon, Chestnut St., RFD 403, Foxboro...crosses the path of U. S. 1, just south of Dedham, Norfolk Co., Mass. A sample of the sand collected by...grayish, coarse grained, and consists chiefly of quartz of various colors (black, brown, gray, white, colorless) |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Tiverton Quadrangle Rhode Island-Massachusetts By SAMUEL J. POLLOCK 3EOLOGY OF SELECTED...of the Tiverton quadrangle, Rhode Island- Massachusetts ___________________________ --________ In pocket...GEOLOGY OF THE TIVERTON QUADRANGLE RHODE ISLAND-MASSACHUSETTS By SAMUEL J. PoLLOCK ABSTRACT The bedrock...Tiverton 7lh-minute quadrangle, Rhode Island-Massachusetts, is of Precambrian(?), Devonian(?) or older...Tiverton 7lh-minute quadrangle, Rhode Island-Massachusetts, is underlain by rocks of Precambrian(?), Devonian( |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | whole-rock slate/phyllite, Narragansett Basin, RI-MA, USA: implications for rejuvenation during very low-grade...Geology,Universityof Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geology,ShimaneUniversity,690 Matsue...Narragansett Basin, Rhode Island and 516 I oI Esmond-Dedham Terrane ~ Carboniferous Basins ~ rdovician-Devonian...Undifferentiated Basement g km ~'g~"~ )' /;:'z Norfolk !~/ Basin . . ;;Voonso0 et ~ ~]"~ Narragansett...41~ ~ 72 ~ Narragansett Pier Granite I Massachusetts (Fig. 1). The variably m e t a m o r p h o s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Squantum 'Tillite", Massachusetts—Evidence of Glaciation or Subaqueous Mass Movements...mudstones in Squantum "tillite", Squantum, Massachusetts, and at Cape Blanco, Oregon 2. Photomicrographs...Photomicrographs of pebbly mudstones at Atlantic locality, Massachusetts, and Cape Blanco, Oregon, and outcrop of Roxbury...Roxbury .,,„. conglomerate, Massachusetts 3. Contorted stratification in varvelike argillite, Atlantic...locality, Massachusetts . . . . 4. Graded bedding in two localities near Squantum, Massachusetts, and in |
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