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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD01W9S0 Folds Very large sample of folded tremolite-talc (?)-carbonate schist. Well-foliated. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 R
GRD01WZS0 Folds Large sample of folded chlorite-biotite-muscovite schist. Very well foliated, coarse-grained with nice crenulations. (Original label: M-146.) 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01WZS1 Folds Smaller sample of folded chlorite-biotite-muscovite schist. Very well foliated, coarse-grained with nice crenulations. (Original label: M-147.) 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD01X1S0 Folds Well-developed foliation. Quartz-biotite-phologopite(?) gneiss. Small ptygmatic folds. New Zealand 1 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01X4S0 Folds Small quartz folds in fine-grained blue matrix. Blue: magnesioreibeckite (?), glaucophane (?). Original description: folded gneiss; blue schist facies? 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01X4S1 Folds Small quartz folds in fine-grained blue matrix. Blue: magnesioreibeckite (?), glaucophane (?). Original description: folded gneiss; blue schist facies? 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01Y1S0 Folds Medium-sized polished sample of gniess composed of biotite-quartz-garnet (minor). Ptygmatic folds of quartz. N30E 52 dip E20 plunge. 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01YES0 Folds Folded grey and white marble. Possibly relict folded bedding (?) from an impure limestone. Carbonate-biotite (black specks and layers). California 1 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD01YHS0 Folds Fine-grained, finely banded marble with tight folds. Relict fossil (?) or porphyroblast. Darwin Area 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD020YS0 Folds Quartz-mica-pyrite schist. Thin, well-formed, and bent banding. Cubic pyrite (rare). Very pronounced banding and hardness. Intense mylontization? Switzerland 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD020ZS0 Folds Carbonate-biotite-quartz-amphibole-muscovite schist with folded laminae and ptygmatic folds. Melanocratic layers: biotite, carbonate, quartz. Leucocratic layers: carbonate, biotite, trace muscovite. Medium-grained quartz veins cutting across and along laminae. Marl protolith? Original description: Q-Bi gneiss with ptygmatic folds. 1 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD029LS0 Folds Relict sandstone-limestone bedding that has been folded. The larger, grey beds are marble while the thinner beds are quartzite. One side of the sample is very weathered. Original label: folded intercalated sandstone-limestone. 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD029VS0 Folds Banded, folded, and cut by quartz veinlets. Mainly cryptocrystalline materials (quartz, chlorite?) and relict soft-sediment structures. Banded hornfels? Original label: Serpentized gneiss. NW Corner LB Quad 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD029YS0 Folds Very well-foliated (laminated), fine-grained schist. Quartz-riebeckite-amphibole-chlorite(?) schist. Nice differential slip microstructure. Original label: metasomatized serpentine schist. 1 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD02BSS0 Folds Fine-grained muscovite schist. Slight folds and crenulations. Slickensides? Alps 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD02BWS0 Folds S-folded gneiss. Phlogopite-biotite-quartz-pyrite (trace). Original description: folded phologopite gneiss. 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD02BXS0 Folds Fine-grained gneiss with ptygmatic folds. Very nice example of folds. 0 Ritter 154, 14 P
GRD02EES0 Folds Folded carbonate. Some layers are visible, one of which contains a small amount of mica. 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD02OAS0 Folds Two very large pieces of folded, bedded sample of marble and quartzite. The more granular beds are marble whereas the darker, more finely-grained beds are quartzite. Original description: Marble. California 2 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD02OBS0 Folds No hand sample. Thin section only. Original description: Blastomylonite - fault zone material showing effects of extreme cataclasis and recrystallization. Note the layering showing different extents of granulation. California 1 Ritter 154, 29 A
GRD02UNS0 Folds Orocopia Schist. Greenschist layered black and green. Isoclinal folds(?). California 2 Ritter 154, 14 P