Eastern Connecticut has many spectacular outcrops of the metamorphic, polydeformed core of the New England Appalachians. Below are some field photos taken during my first few years exploring the eastern half of the state.
extensional shear zone, Willimantic, CT
stunning pegmatite boudinage, Salem, CT
close-up of extensional shear zone, Lisbon, CT
sheath fold, Coventry, CT
extensional shear zone, Coventry, CT
tight recumbent fold, Coventry, CT
coarse-grained gneiss, Coventry, CT
'S' fold, Lebanon, CT
intrafolial fold, Lebanon, CT
sillimanite-garnet-biotite gneiss, Willimantic
joint and foliation control on waterfall, Devils Hopyard, East Haddam, CT
flattened, recumbent folds, Gillette Castle, East Haddam, CT
Chocolate tablet boudin, Mansfield, CT
tightly folded gneissosity, Mansfield, CT
refolded folds, South Glastonbury, CT
complex folds in refolded zone, South Glastonbury, CT
tight folding in meta-sediments, South Glastonbury, CT
contact between undeformed pegmatite and refolded paragneiss, South Glastonbury, CT
radial tourmaline (schorl) cluster in pegmatite, South Glastonbury, CT
black tourmaline (schorl) in pegmatite, South Glastonbury, CT
Pegmatite dike, Fine Arts Building construction site, ECSU campus, fall, 2013
Agmatite (intrusive breccia), Pleasure Beach, Niantic
Agmatite (intrusive breccia), Pleasure Beach, Niantic
Agmatite detail, Pleasure Beach, Niantic
Agmatite complex, Niantic
Migmatitic gneiss with layer-parallel (boudinaged) and cross-cutting pegmatites, Billow Point, Old Lyme
Ptygmatically folded pegmatite vein, Billow Point, Old Lyme
Ptygmatic folds, Billow Point migmatitic gneiss, Old Lyme
Folded migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
boudinaged migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
leucosome-filled boudin necks, migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
folded and boudinaged migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
foliation boudinage and localized pegmatitic leucosomes in boudin necks, Billow Point, Old Lyme
boudinage in migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
boudinage, Billow Point, Old Lyme
folded pegmatite boudins, Billow Point, Old Lyme
disharmonicaly folded migmatitic gneiss, Billow Point, Old Lyme
subtle intrafolial folds in Rope Ferry Gneiss, Waterford, CT
relict isoclinal hinge in Rope Ferry Gneiss, Waterford, CT