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Preliminary results of recent deep drilling on cape cod, Massachusetts

January 1, 1962

In 1961 a 1000-foot drill hole near Harwich on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, penetrated 435 feet of Pleistocene deposits above 50 to 60 feet of crystalline limestone and phyllitic schist, and more than 500 feet of phyllitic schist with abundant quartz veins. Similar rock is known in the Pennsylvanian and Precam-brian (?) sections of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Material of Eocene age was found in earlier drilling near Provincetown, but none was identified from this hole.

Publication Year 1962
Title Preliminary results of recent deep drilling on cape cod, Massachusetts
Authors C. Koteff, J. E. Cotton
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Science
Index ID 70010810
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse