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Sample Type is Metamorphic › Granoblastic › Quartzite

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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD000FS0 Quartzite Fine-grained grey quartzite with a Fe-rich red crust. Original description: pyritiferous feldspathic quartzite. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD0015S0 Quartzite Metamorphosed quartz sandstone (minor plag), partially recrystallized. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD00M3S0 Quartzite Original label: Chokecherry quartzite with clasts of black chert. Chokecherry formation. Silurian (?) 1955. Nevada 3 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD00M4S0 Quartzite Original label: Tuscorora quartzite. L. Silurian. Coll. No. P.T. 402, May 1951. Pennsylvania 1 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD01YIS0 Quartzite Mariposite Marble. Quartzite with green mineralization and large white veins. Original description: fuchsite- and mariposite- bearing rock. Billet. See also M-363. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD01YIS1 Quartzite Mariposite Marble. Quartzite with green mineralization and large white veins. Original description: fuchsite- and mariposite- bearing rock. Billet. See also M-363. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 F
GRD01YJS0 Quartzite Mariposite Marble. Quartzite with green mineralization and large white veins. Original description: fuchsite- and mariposite- bearing rock. Billet. See also M-418. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 F
GRD01ZVS0 Quartzite Pink, medium-grained quartzite with red lenses of Fe-oxide mineralization (likely along fractures). Billet. 0 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD01ZWS0 Quartzite Fine- to medium-grained white quartzite with some molybdenite along a fracture/surface. Original description: molybdenite-bearing quartzite. 0 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD01ZXS0 Quartzite Large sample of pink fine- to medium-grained quartzite with white coarse-grained wollastonite inclusion. Occasional black flecks along margin of the inclusion. 0 Ritter 154, 24 M
GRD020MS0 Quartzite Dark grey quartzite with some Fe-oxide stains along fractures. Somewhat sugary appearance. 0 Ritter 154, 24 F
GRD02C4S0 Quartzite Small, unremarkable sample of quartzite. Faint bedding. Light grey. Not cut. France 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02O3S0 Quartzite Two slabs slightly bedded quartzite. California 3 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD02O4S0 Quartzite Two very different samples. One is a dark fine-grained marble. The other is a light fine-grained marble. Original description: Marble. Schist pendant. California 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02O5S0 Quartzite Fine-grained quartzite. Original description: Siliceous schist. Schist pendant. California 2 Camp Elliott
GRD02OIS0 Quartzite Very small sample of fine-grained gray and Fe-stained quartzite. California 3 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD02OJS0 Quartzite Very small sample of fine-grained gray and Fe-stained quartzite. Faint laminations. California 3 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD02PHS0 Quartzite Two large samples of kyanite-bearing quartzite. California 2 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02SES0 Quartzite Medicine Peak Quartzite. PE quartzite with some preserved crossbedding, kyanite bearing in places. Rt 130 near Mirror Lake in Snowy Range 0 Ritter 154, 24 F
GRD02UHS0 Quartzite Quartzite. ES-152 field trip California 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02UPS0 Quartzite Small sample of sugary quartzite with orange staining. Original Label: Shoofly Formation. GSA field trip 1999. Calc-Silicate Gneiss(?). California 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02UTS0 Quartzite Cadiz Quartzite. Medium-coarse grained, sub angular grains with hematite films between grains. Original description-Lower Cambrian quartzite. California 3 Camp Elliott
GRD02WMS0 Quartzite Meta-quartzite, intensely sheared, flattened and recrystallized. Muscovite has formed on shear planes. Protolith would have been nearly pure quartz sand with minor clay to form the muscovite California 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02WXS0 Quartzite Quartzite with relict bedding California 0 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD0416S0 Quartzite Stirling Formation. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 L