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Gneiss at Escoheag Hill. Blocks in trail shelter 1.75 miles south, 32 degrees east of the lookout tower atop Escoheag Hill. Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1963.
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Photomicrograph of andesine-augite gneiss, showing texture of the rock and association of minerals; the andesine shows strong twinning. Other minerals are augite, a, marginally altered to uralite; biotite, b; orthoclase, o; black areas are ilmenite. Crossed nicols. Bartow County, Georgia. Circa 1944. Plate 6-D, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 224. 1950.
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Gneiss at Escoheag Hill. Strong primary flow structure. Thirteen feet below an amphibolite inclusion. Microcline phenocrysts moderately fractured. Pronounced biotite warp-around. Conspicuous magnetite octahedra. Pencil (six inches long) parallels foliation. 0.84 mile south, 27 degrees east of the lookout tower on Escoheag Hill. Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. November 1962.
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Gneiss at Escoheag Hill. Strong primary flow structure. Thirteen feet below an amphibolite inclusion. Microcline phenocrysts moderately fractured. Pronounced biotite warp-around. Conspicuous magnetite octahedra. Pencil (six inches long) parallels foliation. 0.84 mile south, 27 degrees east of the lookout tower on Escoheag Hill. Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. November 1962.
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Swarm of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss sills (locally discordant) in gneiss at Escoheag Hill. 1.67 miles south, 33 degrees east of the lookout tower atop Escoheag Hill. Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1963.