[Feature Request]: Add Logical field types selection to Parquet Output transform
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Description
### What would you like to happen?
Add [Logical field](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/LogicalTypes.md) types to Parquet output.
Without Logical field types, it is not possible to get Date field imported correctly into BigQuery.
Implementation could look:

### Issue Priority
Priority: 2
### Issue Component
Component: Pipelines
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the Parquet Output transform and review the linked Parquet LogicalTypes specification, then trace how output field types are currently selected. Done means logical field types can be selected for Parquet output and date fields are imported correctly into BigQuery; the issue does not name a test or source file to run.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100