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| Title | Reinterpretation of the Chicken Yard Line`` (CYL)-Whately Pound Channel deposit (WPCD) relationship |
| Creator/Author | Trzcienski, W.E. Jr. (Univ. de Montreal, Quebec (Canada). Dept. de Geologie) ; Thompson, J.B. Jr. (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. Earth and Planetary) ; Hepburn, J.C. (Boston Coll., Chestnut Hill, MA (United States). Dept. of Geology and Geophysics) ; Rosenfeld, J.L. (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Geology and Geophysics) |
| Publication Date | 1993 Mar 01 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 5579386 |
| Report Number(s) | CONF-9303211-- |
| Other Number(s) | ISSN0016-7592; CODEN: GAAPBC |
| Resource Type | Conference |
| Specific Type | Journal Article |
| Resource Relation | Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs ; Vol/Issue: 25:2; 28. annual Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeastern Section meeting; 22-24 Mar 1993; Burlington, VT (United States) |
| Subject | 580000 -- Geosciences; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS-- AGE ESTIMATION;GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS-- STRATIGRAPHY;VERMONT-- GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; CARBONATE ROCKS;COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS;CONGLOMERATES;GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS;SCHISTS;VOLCANIC ROCKS |
| Related Subject | DEVELOPED COUNTRIES;EVALUATION;GEOLOGY;IGNEOUS ROCKS;METAMORPHIC ROCKS;NORTH AMERICA;ROCKS;SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;USA |
| Description/Abstract | Defined at a locality several miles north of Brattleboro, Vermont, the Chicken Yard Line`` has been the trace of demarkation of the Vermont Sequence from the New Hampshire sequence for more than four decades.^At the type locality, quartz-pebble conglomerate and slate-matrix, quartz-pebble conglomerate occur at the base of the Littleton Formation.^Sedimentary features at this locality indicate tops toward the east into slates of the Littleton Formation.^West of the CYL lie the Putney Volcanics and the Gile Mountain and Waits River Formations.^The Gile Mountain is not unlike the Littleton in places but includes throughout, minor, punky-weathering carbonates that are not found in the Littleton.^At Whately, Massachusetts, a unique (some 40 [times] 3.5 meters), graded, quartz-rich channel deposit (WPCD) occurs at the base of the Gile Mountain Formation just above its contact with the underlying Waits River Formation on the flanks of the Whately anticline.^The authors recent work shows, however, that the WPCD places the Gile Mountain with its punky-weathering carbonates above the Waits River in the Whately area.^Massive volcanics in the Hawley were earlier interpreted as correlatives of the Erving Formation (Robinson, 1963).^The authors agree with this correlation but suggest that the Erving is older rather than younger than the Littleton.^The authors believe the Littleton rests on progressively older rocks eastward into the Bronson Hill zone.^Preliminary work in the Bernardston area to the north of Whately confirms the earlier mapping of Balk, Moore, and Trask which shows the Putney Volcanics and the CYL crossing the VT-MA state line directly southward from Brattleboro and disappearing beneath the Mesozoic cover.^This agrees with the reinterpretation of the CYL as not occurring in the Whately area but passing somewhere to the east beneath the Mesozoic basin. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Pages: 85 |
| System Entry Date | 2001 May 13 |
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