 | | 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) | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S.A.) 2 Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R1 02881 (U.S.A.) Received November...January 7, 1987 In southeastern New England the Narragansett Pier Granite locally intrudes Carboniferous metasedimentary...metasedimentary rocks of the Narragansett basin, and yields a monazite U-Pb Permian emplacement age of...of 273 +_2 Ma. Zircon from the Narragansett Pier Granite contains a minor but detectable amount of an older...zircon from the late Paleozoic N a r r a g a n sett Pier a n d Westerly G r a n i t e s that contains a n |  | | 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) | | 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...1973) with only small compositional variation. Quartz and the feldspars constitute 89% to 99% by volume |  | | Report (chapter) | | magmatism was not related to a simple subduction island-arc setting. Igneous activity ranging in age from...peralkalic, except for the more aluminous Permian Narragansett Pier granite. Gander zone N W of the fault zone...younger than that indicated by the Permian Narragansett Pier granite described below. :: ; CT 0 I ...other smaller plutonic bodies (about 345 Ma) in Rhode Island (Hermes & Zartman 1985), the Rattlesnake pluton...in press). A few intermediate monzodiorites and quartz diorites are present in the Scituate Complex (Jordan |  | | Report (chapter) | | fault-controlled retrograde metamorphism. In the USA at least, Alleghanian metamorphism also affected...Carboniferous basins, of which the Narragansett Basin of Rhode Island and Massachusetts is the largest...and NE. Southeastern New England Narragansett Basin The Narragansett Basin is an arcuate structural basin...metamorphosed, and intruded by the Permian Narragansett Pier granite (Murray & Skehan 1979, Burks et al...perhaps in part a consequence of frictional heating. Quartz grains in folded rocks from the northwestern part |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resources characterize Rhode Island's complex geology. The Geol Rhode Island J. A L L A N CAIN Geology...Geology Department University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 A T P R E S E N T , R H O D E...Further straining credulity is the suggestion that Rhode Island and some other parts of the eastern United States...is now western Europe and northwest Africa. Rhode Island is part of the southeastern New England platform...glacial deposits on Block Island, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Island. The western margin of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | during Permo-Triassic extension, SE New England, USA K. O ' H A R A Department o f Geological Sciences...Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA ABSTRACT C0,-bearing fluid inclusions in strongly...the Hope Valley Shear zone of Connecticut and Rhode Island are of mixed composition (Xco2=0.1; 7 wt% NaCl...culminating with the intrusion of the post-tectonic Narragansett Pier granite at 275 Ma in Permian time. Wintsch...Precambrian (Avalonian) gneisses from western Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut within the Hope Valley |  | | Report (issue) | | Ashaway and Voluntovm. quadrangles, Connecticut-Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger U.i S. Geological Survey... Muscovitic facies ................ Escoheag Quartz Diorite Gneiss Fine-grained facies 58 59 64 ...Rod Granite Gneiss ..............* 103 Narragansett Pier Granite ............... 105 Ifhite facies............. . . HI Aplite, pegmatite, and vein quartz Mafic dikes Petrogenesis ......... 116 .......158 Mechanism of intrusion ................ 162 Quartz-sillimanite anc. q;^r\,£-sillimanite--muscovite |  | | 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) | | muscovite and whole-rock slate/phyllite, Narragansett Basin, RI-MA, USA: implications for rejuvenation during...Geology,Universityof Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geology,ShimaneUniversity,690 Matsue...Late Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks in the Narragansett basin were metamorphosed (lower anchizone to...slate/phyllite within the northwestern Narragansett Basin, Rhode Island and 516 I oI Esmond-Dedham Terrane...~]"~ Narragansett Basin Fig. 1. Major lithotectonic ele- i 41~ ~ 72 ~ Narragansett Pier Granite |  | | 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...grains surrounded by colorless anhedral crystals of quartz. Many of the large K-feldspar grains clearly exhibit...amphibole (in sample 419) fill interstices between quartz and K-feldspar. In all rocks sparse reddish-brown |  | | 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) | | Surficial Geology of the Kingston Quadrangle Rhode Island By CLIFFORD A. KAYE CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL...Council of the State of Rhode Island UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1960 UNITED STATES...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D.C. CONTENTS Abstract. ______________...movement... ___________________________________ Narragansett basin ice and upland ice_-----_-___-_-___-___-______...__-___....._____. Ablation-moraine complex of the Narragansett basin ice..______ Ablation moraine, undifferentiated |  | | Report (issue) | | within-plate continental setting in a Sh«Bow-fnarin« quartz He a, IAPETUS PLATFORM aarxjatooaa, ahataa and...the intrusion of calc-alkaline granodiorites and quartz monzonites. Subsequent, mildly alkaline activity...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 |  | | 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...FIGURE 1. Modes of Ponaganset Gneiss plotted on quartz-potassium feldspar-plagioclase diagram._____--____-__-__-_-_______ |  | | 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...hornblende), 357-352 Ma (K-Ar biotite); 2. Wenham Quartz Monzonite, 390 f 10 Ma (U-Pb zircon), 352 Ma (K-Ar...(K-Ar hornblende), 308-254 Ma (K-Ar biotite); 6. Rhode Island Qunicy Granite (Cumberland Complex), 235-188 |  | | 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) | | 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~_____- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tectonic development of southern Narragansett Bay and offshore Rhode Island Robert L. McMaster Graduate School...School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 Jelle de Boer Department...features on the inner shelf beneath Block Island and Rhode Island Sounds. Magnetic lineaments suggest a tectonic...complexes of Rhode Island and Connecticut. From the geophysical data, the Narragansett Basin is inferred...inferred to continue at least 16 to 22 km off the Rhode Island coast. Here grabens or half grabens, filled |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | southeast quarter of Section 23 T 40N R29W in Dickinson County, Michigan, about five miles north of Norway, Michigan...by alkali feldspar and quartz, white lenses dominat ed by plagioclase and quartz, and dark lenses containing...predominantly of a red grano phyric intergrowth of quartz and alkali feldspar mantling cores of red and white...areas are separated by a network of similar sized quartz, feldspar, and chloritized ferromagnesium minerals...is presented by EMMONS(1953). The Westerly, Rhode Island, specimen was purchased as bulk material from |
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