		LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTIONS

PINNACLE FORMATION

	CZpcm   Mottled Muscovite Schist: brown mottled, silver-gray muscovite 
		schist.

	CZpm    Muscovite Schist: silver-gray, quartz-albite-muscovite schist.

	CZpbg   Biotite Graywacke: coarse grained, massive, thickly bedded 
		biotite graywacke.

	CZpl    Metagraywacke and Phyllite: undifferentiated light gray, 
		massive, medium grained quartz-sericite-chlorite-albite 
		metagraywacke, fine grained, gray or green sericite-chlorite-
		quartz-epidote phyllite and schist.

UNDERHILL FORMATION

	CZul   Quartz Laminated Schist: light gray to tan and rusty,fine grained
	       well foliated, quartz-muscovite-chlorite-albite +/- dolomite 
	       schist.

	CZu     Schist and Metawacke: light gray to silver-green, fine grained, 
		quartz-albite-biotite-muscovite chlorite schist; coarse grained, 
		light gray-green, quartz-albite-biotite-chlorite-magnetite-
		pyrite schist and gneiss.

	CZub    Biotite Metagraywacke and Greenstone: dark gray, fine to medium 
		grained, quartz-albite-biotite-chlorite-sericite schist and 
		metagraywacke interlayered with amphibole-chlorite-epidote-
		quartz-albite-biotite-sphene greenstone.

	CZua    Metagraywacke and Amphibolite: dark gray, coarse grained,
		quartz-albite-biotite-chlorite-sericite metagraywacke 
		interlayered with dark gray, amphibole-albite-epidote-quartz-
		chlorite amphibolite.

	CZug    Greenstone and Amphibolite: fine to medium grained,light to 
		dark green amphibole-albite-chlorite-epidote schist; coarse 
		grained, dark green, weakly foliated amphibole-albite-
		biotie-epidote amphibolite.

BATTELL FORMATION

	Cbw     White River Member: dark gray, carbonaceous, muscovite-quartz-
		albite schist with black quartzites, brecciated dolomitic 
		marble, quartz veins and tan-weathering pods of dolomite.

MONASTERY FORMATION

	CZm     Schist: intercalated, tan sandy quartz-muscovite-biotite-albite-
		garnet schist, silvery-tan sericite schist, silvery green 
		quartz-chlorite-muscovite-albite schist, and gray and tan 
		quartzite.

	CZmg    Greenstone: fine grained, dark green, rusty weathering chlorite-
		albite-calcite-epidote-pyrite schist.

FAYSTON FORMATION

	CZf     White Albitic Schist: silvery green, medium grained,muscovite-
		quartz-albite-chlorite-garnet-magnetite schist with thin light 
		gray quartzites.

	CZfb    Quartz-Biotite Gneiss: medium to coarse grained, salt and pepper 
		color, quartz-albite-biotite-magnetite-pyrite schist and gneiss.

	CZft    Tourmaline Schist: silvery dark gray to rusty, medium grained 
		quartz-muscovite-albite-tourmaline-chlorite schist.

	CZfg    Greenstone: fine grained, dark green, rusty weathering chlorite-
		albite-calcite epidote-pyrite schist.

GRANVILLE FORMATION / HAZEN'S NOTCH FORMATION

	Cg      Carbonaceous Albitic Schist: black, rusty weathering,medium 
		grained quartz-muscovite-albite-chlorite-graphite schist.

	CZhnca    Carbonaceous Albitic Schist: black, rusty weathering, 
		  medium to coarse grained, well foliated, quartz-sericite-
		  albite-chlorite graphite schist. Thin black and white 
		  pinstriped quartzites occur locally.

	Cgl     Lincoln Gap Member: black, rusty weathering quartz-muscovite-
		albite-graphite-pyrite schist and 5 cm thick black quartzite.        

	CZhn    White Albitic Schist: white, medium to coarse grained, massive 
		to foliated, albite-chlorite-quartz-sericite schist with minor 
		biotite and garnet.

MOUNT ABRAHAM SCHIST

	CZa2    Fine grained, steel blue-gray to silvery tan, muscovite-
		paragonite-quartz-chlorite-chloritoid-garnet schist +/- 
		magnetite. More homogeneous than CZa1 and does not include 
		CZag or CZaw.

	CZa3    Silvery white schist similar to CZa1 and CZa2 with large (<2cm) 
		garnet porphyroblasts and microscopic allanite.

	CZa4    Fine grained, steel blue-gray muscovite-paragonite-quartz-
		chlorite-chloritoid-kyanite-garnet schist +/-magnetite with 
		quartz vein segregations and chloritoid porphyroblasts.

	CZa     Chloritoid-White Mica Schist: silvery-gray, fine to medium 
		grained chlorite-chloritoid-quartz-white mica schist, locally 
		with minor garnet and magnetite porphyroblasts. Distinctive 
		chlorite streaks and 1 cm rusty needles of altered kyanite 
		are common.

CRETACEOUS DIKES

	Kd      Diabase Dike:massive, vertically oriented, black, aphanitic 
		basic dikes ranging from 0.5m to 1.5m thick.

