The Oaks Rock Garden

The Oaks Map

Oaks Map

Rock List

Site 2

Site 2: Cordierite-biotite hornfels
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (metamorphosed during Devonian)
Site 3

Site 3: Staurolite-muscovite schist
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (metamorphosed during Devonian)
Site 4

Site 4: Glacial erratic boulder (containing beds of slate and quartzite)
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (dropped at Oaks during last ice age)
Site 5

Site 5: Muscovite-biotite schist
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (metamorphosed during Devonian)
Site 6

Site 6: Muscovite-biotite schist and granite
Age: Schist - Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (metamorphosed during Devonian); Granite – Late Devonian
Site 7

Site 7: Gabbro
Age: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic
Site 8

Site 8: Columnar basalt
Age: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic
Site 9

Site 9: Porphyritic granitoid
Age: Neoproterozoic
Site 10

Site 10: Micrite (lime mudstone)
Age: Late Carboniferous
Site 11

Site 11: Gypsum
Age: Early Carboniferous
Site 12

Site 12: Sandstone
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician
Site 13

Site 13: Quartz arenite sandstone
Age: Late Cambrian – Early Ordovician
Site 14

Site 14: Marble
Age: Neoproterozoic (~600 Ma)
Site 15

Site 15: Hydrothermal quartz vein through gabbro
Age: Late Triassic – Early Jurassic (timing of veining unknown)
Site 16

Site 16: Diroite with granite xenolith
Age: Neoproterozoic (607 ± 2 Ma)
Site 17

Site 17: Sandstone and granite
Age: Sandstone – Cambrian to Ordovician; Granite - Devonian
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