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Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Geological Survey

Bedrock Geologic Map of the Uxbridge Quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and Providence County, Rhode Island

By Gregory J. Walsh

Thumbnail of and link to report map PDF (14.8 MB)Summary

The bedrock geology of the 7.5-minute Uxbridge quadrangle consists of Neoproterozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Avalon zone. In this area, rocks of the Avalon zone lie within the core of the Milford antiform, south and east of the terrane-bounding Bloody Bluff fault zone. Permian pegmatite dikes and quartz veins occur throughout the quadrangle. The oldest metasedimentary rocks include the Blackstone Group, which represents a Neoproterozoic peri-Gondwanan marginal shelf sequence. The metasedimentary rocks are intruded by Neoproterozoic arc-related plutonic rocks of the Rhode Island batholith.

This report presents mapping by G.J. Walsh. The complete report consists of a map, text pamphlet, and GIS database. The map and text pamphlet are available only as downloadable files (see frame at right). The GIS database is available for download in ESRI™ shapefile and Google Earth™ formats, and includes contacts of bedrock geologic units, faults, outcrops, structural geologic information, geochemical data, and photographs.

First posted September 11, 2014

For additional information, contact:
Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
926A National Center
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/egpsc/

Or

Gregory J. Walsh
U.S. Geological Survey
P.O. Box 628
87 State Street, Room 228
Montpelier, VT 05602
Email: gwalsh@usgs.gov

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Suggested citation:

Walsh, G.J., 2014, Bedrock geologic map of the Uxbridge quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and Providence County, Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3295, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000, 36-p. pamphlet, https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3295.

ISSN 2329–132X (online)


Contents

Text Pamphlet

Introduction

Geochemistry

Structural Geology

Metamorphism

Economic Geology

Acknowledgments

References Cited

Geologic Map

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