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Rill marks on beach west of Noyes Point. Washington County, Rhode Island.
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Surface of beach of fine sand at low tide. Inlet west of Noyes Point. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date.
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Album caption: Panorama with photo no. 130. (ftg00130) Index card: Panorama of abandoned quarry in Westerly Granite 0.93 mile S. 38 W. of where Nooseneck Hill Road crosses Pawcatuck River, Westerly. White line painted on quarry wall marks contact of Westerly Granite (below) and Narragansett Pier Granite (above). Center of panorama looks roughly east, along the strike of the Westerly dike. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 24, 1963. (Panorama with photo no. 130). Note: This image includes photograph number 131, 132, 133.
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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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Quartz knot and vein with uniform fractures that extend into host porphyritic grantie gneiss. 1.06 miles south, 82 degrees east of Bench Mark "Beach," Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 16, 1962.
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Primary flow lineation (quartz rods) in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Lineation parallels hammer handle. Shore of Yawgoog Pond, tip of north-pointing peninsula northwest of Phillips Island. Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. July 1962.
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Vertical wind ripple marks on face of sand dune, with a slope of from 20 to 25 degrees towards the ocean. Washington County, Rhode Island. C. 1900. Left photograph on page 48, Images of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1879-1979.
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Drawn-out and flattened microcline phenocrysts in porphyritic granite gneiss. 0.13 mile north of the east tip of Beach Pond, Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1962.
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Feldspathic gneiss of the Plainfield Formation. Sillimanite grade. Pegmatites with biotite selvages and whispy outlines were probably sweated out during the metamorphism. Cut on west side of Route 95. 0.45 mile northwest of Woodville Road. Hopkinton. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1963.
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Mafic dike (slightly altered extremely fine-grained basalt) from three-quarters to two inches thick in porphyritic granite gneiss. Pencil parallels strike of foliation of host. 0.90 mile south, 60 degrees east of where Ten Rod Road crosses the Connecticut-Rhode Island border, Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1962.
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Anatectic (?) aplitic granite in predominantly felsic volcanic rocks at Westerly. Rotated inclusions. 0.39 mile north, 32 degrees west of intersection of Norwich Road and US Route 1. Pawcatuck. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1963.
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Trails of Rock Crabs on fine silt and sand at recession of tide. Inlet west of Noyes Point. Washington County. Rhode Island.
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Glacial boulder of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss resting on an outcrop of the same lithology. A perched boulder. Island in northwest part of Yawgoog Pond, Hopkinton. Field assistant Robin C. Lease for scale. Washington County, Rhode Island. July 13, 1962.
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Textural layering in porphyritic granite gneiss. 1.09 miles north, 50 degrees west of Bench Mark 337 on Woody Hill Road, Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. October 1962.
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Early-formed and deformed vein quartz masses in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. South tip of Phillips Island in Yawgoog Pond. Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. July 1962.
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Two (unmapped) facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Upper is porphyritic and has a biotite selvage at the contact. 0.20 mile south, 85 degrees west of the benchmark 337 on Woody Hill Road, Hopkinton. Washington County, Rhode Island. September 1962.
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Two (unmapped) facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Lower is porphyritic and appears to have cut quartz knot in the alaskite above the hammer handle. 0.27 mile north 83 degrees west of benchmark 337 on Woody Hill Road, Hopkinton. Washington County, Rhode Island. September 1962.
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Feldspar-quartz-biotite gneiss inclusion in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Inclusion is concordant and fine grained. Marks on hammer handle are one inch apart. 0.25 mile south, 47 degrees east of the south tip of Deep Pond, Exeter. Washington County, Rhode Island. September 19, 1962.
map background search result map search result map Primary flow lineation (quartz rods) in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Two facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Two facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Early-formed and deformed vein quartz masses in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Glacial boulder of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Feldspar-quartz-biotite gneiss inclusion in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Looking west at sand dunes, five miles east of Watch Hill. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Irregular surface of sandy bottom, produced by cutflowing tide, at inlet west of Noyes Point. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Surface of beach of fine sand at low tide. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Panorama of abandoned quarry in Westerly Granite. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1963 Primary flow lineation (quartz rods) in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Two facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Two facies of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss in contact. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Early-formed and deformed vein quartz masses in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Glacial boulder of Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Feldspar-quartz-biotite gneiss inclusion in Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1962. Looking west at sand dunes, five miles east of Watch Hill. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Irregular surface of sandy bottom, produced by cutflowing tide, at inlet west of Noyes Point. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Surface of beach of fine sand at low tide. Washington County, Rhode Island. no date. Panorama of abandoned quarry in Westerly Granite. Washington County, Rhode Island. 1963