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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD01V2S0 Schist Large sample of coarse-grained schist composed of biotite-muscovite-plagioclase-potassium feldspar-quartz. Foliated with little to no banding. Alpine schist? Original label: Zone 7. New Zealand 0 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD01VTS0 Ga-bearing Schist Slight slaty cleavage. Fine- to medium-grained grey phyllosilicates, garnet porphyroblasts, and trace amounts of muscovite and quartz. South Dakota 0 Ritter 154, 24 D
GRD01VUS0 Ga-bearing Schist Thin slab of schist composed of very fine-grained green phyllosilicates with altered garnet porphyroblasts. Possibly retrograde (altered). Well-developed slaty cleavage. 0 Ritter 154, 24 D
GRD01VVS0 Ga-bearing Schist Small sample of medium-grained phyllosilicates with very small garnet (rare) and lenses/sigma clasts of quartz. Well-developed slaty cleavage. 0 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD01VWS0 St-bearing Schist Very small sample of a medium- to coarse-grained schist composed of muscovite-garnet-staurolite. Gem-like crystals. 0 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD01VYS0 St-bearing Schist Medium-sized sample of a schist composed mainly fine-frained phyllosilicates (chlorite, biotite, muscovite trace) with garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts. Nice lineations. 0 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD01VZS0 St-bearing Schist Small sample of schist composed mostly of muscovite and staurolite. Small s fold in cross-section. 0 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD01W0S0 Schist Medium-grained phyllosilicates (mostly phlogopite) with a small amount of quartz. Well-developed foliation. Original description: graphitic schist. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD01W1S0 St-bearing Schist Medium-sized sample of schist composed of fine-grained phyllosilicates with garnet and a few staurolite porphyroblasts. See also M-167 for a similar sample. Original description: Staurolite-garnet schist of the staurolite zone of the Flag Rock formation. South Dakota 0 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD01W3S0 Ga-bearing Schist Multiple small samples of mica-garnet-quartz schist. Fine-grained phyllosilicates (muscovite and biotite?) with garnet porphyroblasts and discontinuous quartz lenses. 0 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD01W5S0 Ky-bearing Schist Medium sample of kyanite-muscovite-quartz-chlorite schist. Very nice sample. See also M-43 and M-209. 1 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD01W6S0 Talc Schist Medium-sized sample of talc-dolomite- tremolite schist. Pale-green talc (sheared) with a thick band of dolomite (icelandic spar). Minor amount of dark green tremolite in the talc. 1 Ritter 154, 14 G
GRD01W8S0 Schist Tremolite-quartz-pyrite schist. Radiating crystals. Alpine 1 Ritter 154, 14 G
GRD01WBS0 Schist Well-foliated phlogopite schist. Medium- to coarse-grained. Trace amounts of quartz and pyrite. Very nice sample. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD01WCS0 Schist Sample of chlorite-magnetite schist. Porphyroblasts of magnetite crystals. Good foliation. Sample is all scratched up. Original description: prochlorite enclosing magnetite. Maryland 0 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD01WES0 Schist Multiple small samples of specularite schist. Well-foliated and fine-grained. 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01WFS0 Schist Coarse-grained, purple tremolite schist. Original description: Hexagonite tremolite schist. New York 1 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD01WGS0 Schist Quartz-sericite schist. Quartz-sericite-flecks of magnetite. From the Chickies Quartzite. Pennsylvania 1 Ritter 154, 24 D
GRD01WHS0 Schist Small sample of specular schist 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01WIS0 Sil-bearing Schist Large sample of biotite-muscovite-quartz-sillimanite(?)schist. Slighty gneissic with generally medium- to coarse-grained texture. Ontario 1 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD01WJS0 Schist Small sample of biotite-quartz schist. Weakly-developed foliation. Generally fine-grained. Original description: mudstone protolith; pelite enclosing M-86. 1 Camp Elliott
GRD01WKS0 Schist Small sample of biotite- quartz- potassium feldspar schist. Weakly-developed foliation. Generally fine-grained. Original description: pelitic schist wall rock of I-6. 1 Camp Elliott
GRD01WLS0 Schist Biotite-plagioclase-muscovite (trace) schist. Angular, unoriented plagioclase. Fine- to medium-grained. Moderately foliated. Original description: metapelite with little quartz. California 1 Ritter 154, 24 D
GRD01WMS0 Schist Biotite-quartz-pyrite (trace) schist. Quartz bands/augen. Generally fine- to medium-grained and well-foliated. Original description: fine-grained gneiss. California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01WNS0 St-bearing Schist Medium-sized sample of muscovite-garnet-staurolite-quartz schist. Fine-grained phyllosilicates with garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts. Well-developed foliation. Alps 0 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD01WOS0 St-bearing Schist Fine-grained green-silver phyllosilicates with small staurolite crystals. Small folds/crenulations in cross-sections. Nice foliation. Alps 0 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD01WPS0 Schist Small sample of muscovite-glaucophane (?)-quartz (trace) schist. Original description: quartz-muscovite-chlorite-biotite-albite schist. California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01WQS0 Schist Large sample of biotite-muscovite-quartz-pyrite (trace) schist. Some discontinuous quartz bands (slightly gneissic). Well-foliated and medium-grained. Original description: biotite-muscovite-quartz gneiss. New Zealand 0 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD01WRS0 Schist Small sample of biotite-muscovite schist. Fine-grained and well-foliated. 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01WTS0 Talc Schist Small sample of talc schist. Poorly developed foliation. Soapy feel. 0 Ritter 154, 24 C