University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository New England Intercollegiate Geological NEIGC Trips Excursion Collection 1-1-1972 Stratigraphy of the East Flank of the Green Mountain Anticlinorium, Southern Vermont Skehan, James W. Hepburn, J. Christopher Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/neigc_trips Recommended Citation Skehan, James W. and Hepburn, J. Christopher, "Stratigraphy of the East Flank of the Green Mountain Anticlinorium, Southern Vermont" (1972). NEIGC Trips. 160. https://scholars.unh.edu/neigc_trips/160 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the New England Intercollegiate Geological Excursion Collection at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NEIGC Trips by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 3 T rip B -l STRATIGRAPHY OF THE EAST FLANK OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN ANTICLINORIUM, SOUTHERN VERMONT by James W. Skehan, S.J.* and J. Christopher Hepburn* INTRODUCTION The Green Mountain anticlinorium in southern Vermont has an exposed core of Precambrian gneisses overlain to the east and west by metamorphosed Paleozoic rocks. The rocks of the west limb of the anticlinorium are chiefly quartzites and carbonates of a miogeosynclinal sequence. The east limb of the anticlinorium consists of a eugeosynclinal sequence of schists and gneisses from (?) Cambrian through Lower Devonian age. The purpose of the present field trip is to examine the stratigraphy of these schists and gneisses. A roughly west-to-east section across portions of the Wilmington and Brattleboro quadrangles (Fig. 1) will be followed.