I’ve known
about this for years, never documented it. I’m
calling it a rock swirl.
It is right on Cameron’s Line. I
studied that formation when I did my
Independent Study on Soapstone Quarries in
1976.
(Don’t do the math! I’ve heard it is
still referred to by some.)
It is an overturned thrust fault.
Here is what it is made up of:
from the Connecticut Geological Map
CH - Cambrian, Hoosic Schist, which is a gray, rusty
weathering,
fine to medium-grained schist. And poorly
layered schistose-gneiss,
composed of quartz, biotite and plagioclase.
Ygn - Proterozoic, Layered gneiss, gray,
medium-grained, well layered gneiss
Ohc - Ordovician, Harley Formation, carbonaceous
schist facies, gray,
rusty weathering, fine to medium-grained schist
and granofels
Or - Ordovician, Ratlum Mountain Schist, gray to
medium-grained schist and granofels.
CL.- Cameron’s Line
This is a thrust fault, formed during the North
American and African collision.
To get more information, you might want to do a search
on the Taconic Orogeny.
Here is a close up of the geological map of that area.