EXPLANATION

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Areas of outcrop shown in darkest color; areas with numerous small outcrops and
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bedrock near surface are shown with dotted patten. Grain-size descriptors follow
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East Berlin Formation

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Maroon siltstone and fine-grained sandstone (Sanders, 1972b). Not exposed in
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4125'45"N 4125'45"N
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Wallingford quadrangle; closest exposures in Branford Quadrangle (Sanders, 1972)

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along northeast shore of Lake Gaillard ~100 m south of Wallingford quadrangle

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boundary.
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Holyoke Basalt
4125'30"N 4125'30"N

Basalt, gray, dark-gray and greenish gray on freshly broken surface, weathers to tea-
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brown patina. Composed of gray plagioclase feldspar laths up to 0.5 mm in length
and dark gray stubby about 0.5 mm. pyroxene crystals in a gray groundmass. Base
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not exposed in quadrangle; top vesicular with local soil pockets; top exposed in
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joints and segregation sheets composed of ferro-diorite. Curvilinear columnar
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entablature reported in some locations. Vesicles and amygdales reported in upper

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72 part of unit. Ridge forming and generally cliff forming. Approximately 200 m. thick.
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Jurassic Formations
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71 #14 Shuttle Meadow Formation
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4125'0"N

Reddish-brown to grayish-red siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone with rare

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4125'0"N

medium-grained sandstone lenses overlying scour surfaces. Sandstones ripple-

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stratified. Poorly exposed in quadrangle; only positively correlated Shuttle Meadow

35 seen below (but not in contact with) Holyoke Basalt in Gulf Brook and its tributary and
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an unnamed intermittent stream north and east of Northford Village. Approximately
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4124'45"N 4124'45"N

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Dark bluish-gray pillow basalt (Jta) and volcaniclastic breccia (Jtab). Neither base
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quadrangle where it confined to an erosional channel in New Haven arkose and
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overlain by volcaniclastic breccia. Vesicles reported in other locations, but not seen
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in the Wallingford quadrangle. Basalt flows better exposed to south in Branford

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quadrangle. Volcaniclastic breccia is more common and exposed from the
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southern edge of quadrangle to the eastern edge just north of Totoket Mountain.
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Breccia consists of rounded to angular clasts of scoria and both massive and

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vesicular basalt. Some basalt clasts have chilled margins and other features

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suggesting they were hot and also plastic when incorporated into breccia. Breccia
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of arkosic sediments. To northeast Talcott Basalt is extensively altered and crops out
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poorly (Jtaa). Thickness ~140 m determined by measurement on cross section.
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Diabase dikes and sills, fine- to medium- grained, massive to locally brecciated,
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locally vesicular and/or amygdaloidal. Consists of plagioclase laths and

Jurassic
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phenocrysts, clino-pyroxene phenocrysts and aggregate grains, commonly with

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D mesostasis. Chilled margins contain olivine phenocrysts. Dikes form topographic

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ridge-lines common to the area. Local breccia consists of non-vesicular diabase
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fragments, mostly angular, lacking chilled margins, usually with sedimentary matrix.
4123'45"N 4123'45"N

Some of the dikes may have fed the Talcott Basalt (Philpotts and Martello, 1968;
Jsm Philpotts and Asher, 1992), but portions of many clearly did not make it to the
surface. Sedimentary rocks locally melted and locally contaminate the diabase.

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The eastern tip of the Sleeping Giant laccolith on western edge of map.
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4123'30"N 4123'30"N

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Triassic Formation
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New Haven Arkose

Coarse-grained, poorly sorted, pebble and cobble bearing sandstone and sandy
conglomerate, gray and pinkish gray, poorly bedded. Bedding when seen is

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lenticular with rare tabular and ripple stratification. Locally with reddish-brown to
brick-red micaceous sandstone and siltstone. Reddish sediments locally mottled
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green. Generally poorly exposed across quadrangle, but locally well cemented and
4123'15"N 15
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4123'15"N

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rocks found to date. Neither top nor base exposed. Thickness not determined.

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Lithologic Contacts
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Solid where observed, dashed where inferred, queried where extent, location or
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where inferred. Queried where location and orientation are uncertain.
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Strike and Dip of Bedding
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Strike and Dip of Fractures

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NAD 1983 StatePlane Connecticut FIPS 0600 TN

Estimated Strike of Bedding
1 0.5 0 1 Miles Strike of Vertical Fracture
Lambert Conformal Conic
Geology by Steinen,R., Charney,A., Bogart,J., VanderLeest,R.(2016-2017)
MN

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GIS Database by Bogart,J.(2016-2017)
Feet Cartography by Bogart,J.(2016-2017) Geochemical Sample Locations and ID Number
Hillshade Imagery from DEM of LiDAR.....FEMA, Photo Science, December 2010-May 2011 ...http://coast.noaa.gov
1,000 500 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 #

Hydrography....................................................................................................... CTDEEP, 2005 ...http://www.ct.gov/deep 1346' ID Numbers 1 - 60 location of samples for thin sections
Roads................................................................................................... UCONN, CTDEEP, 2006 ...http://www.ct.gov/deep 1 0.5 0 1 Kilometers ID Numbers 61- 95 location of geochemical analyses
Names........GNIS,2017 CTDEEP, 2017...http://geonames.usgs.gov,http://nationalmap.usgs.gov,http://www.ct.gov/deep *Data available in accompanying final technical report
Contours............................................................................................. UCONN,CLEAR,2000...http://www.clear.uconn.edu
SCALE 1:12,000
CONTOUR INTERVAL 10 FT

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Elevation (m)

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Author Affiliations
1 Connecticut Geological Survey; Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
2 University of Connecticut, Center for Integrative Geosciences
3 Central Connecticut State University, Department of Geosciences

This geologic map and accompanying Final Technical report was funded in
part by the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program under

Preliminary Bedrock Geologic Map of the Southern Half of the Wallingford 7.5' Quadrangle, Connecticut StateMap award number G16AC00180, 2016
The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as
necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government

By: Produced by the Connecticut Geological Survey,

Randolph P. Steinen 1,2 , Allison Charney 3 , James Bogart 1 , Rebecca VanderLeest 2 Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
www.ct.gov/deep/geology
2017