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Sample Type is Metamorphic › Granoblastic › Marble

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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD0014S0 Impure Marble Fine-grained brown marble. Nice relict laminae. Micrite protolith? Original description: Limestone. Horizontal recrystallized laminae. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD00WJS0 Marble missing, Ordovician, White Marble Vermont 0
GRD00WKS0 Marble missing, Cambrian White Marble Georgia 0
GRD00WQS0 Marble missing, Precambrian, marble Wyoming 0
GRD01Y4S0 Impure Marble Coarse-grained calcite with small metallic oxide crystals; some oxides have a rust halo while others do not. Perhaps the latter is molybdenite?. See also M-59 and M-211 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01Y5S0 Impure Marble Coarse-grained calcite with small metallic oxide crystals. Some oxides have a rust halo while others do not. Perhaps the latter is molybdenite?. See also M-58 and M-211. Original description: calcitic marble. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01Y6S0 Dolomite Marble Pink-peach dolomite marble. Original description: dolomitic marble. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01Y8S0 Calcite Marble Fine-grained grey marble with a few thin layers of Fe-staining. Two billets. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01Y9S0 Calcite Marble White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using a hand-lense. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YAS0 Calcite Marble White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD01YAS1 Calcite Marble White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD01YAS2 Calcite Marble White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD01YCS0 Dolomite Marble Mottled red-pink, fine-grained dolomite marble. One clear vein crosses the sample. Billet. 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD01YDS0 Impure Marble Large slabby, fine-grained, foliated sample. Perhaps some relict bedding (low-grade metamorphism). Possibly from an impure limestone (marl?). Mylonite?. Original label: Penn Limestone. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YFS0 Calcite Marble Coarse-grained layers of white, grey, and pink calcite. Grey layers contain small metallic flecks. Pink layers are pink due to staining. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YGS0 Calcite Marble Layering (relict bedding?) in coarse-grained marble. Granular (weathered). Minor amount of red and green mineralization. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YKS0 Calcite Marble Contact between coarse-grained light and dark marbles. Light marble becomes more fine-grained closer to dark marble. Rust blebs in dark marble. Arizona 1 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YLS0 Calcite Marble Fine-grained marble cut by veinlets. Impure limestone protolith (?). Arizona 1 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YMS0 Impure Marble Small sample of a coarse-grained marble. Nice cleavage faces on calcite and muscovite. Books of muscovite and small metallic flecks (trace). See also M-58 and M-59. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01YNS0 Impure Marble Calcite-phlogopite-muscovite-plagioclase-quartz marble. Generally coarse-grained. Poorly foliated with granoblastic texture. Alpine 5 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD01YOS0 Impure Marble Fine-grained grey and white marble. Relict bedding or structure? Large, euhedral oxidized pyrite porphyroblasts. Original description: dolomite marble, contains sulfides. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD01ZZS0 Impure Marble Marble with relict bedding. The light beds are composed of carbonate. The dark beds are carbonaceous carbonate. Some Fe-staining along fractures. Original description: carbonaceous marble. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD0216S0 Dolomite Marble White, granoblastic dolomite marble. Faint spots of Fe-staining. Monomineralic. See also M-425. 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD0216S1 Dolomite Marble White, granoblastic dolomite marble. Faint spots of Fe-staining. Monomineralic. See also M-425. 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD02A9S0 Dolomite Marble Banding/relict bedding? Cryptocrystalline to very coarse-grained. Mainly composed of dolomite and thin, black dendrites (pyrolusite?). Original label: Chert? 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD02BAS0 Dolomite Marble Coarse-grained, white dolomite marble. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD02EDS0 Calcite Marble Grey coarse-grained marble. Very nice crystals. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD02EDS1 Calcite Marble Grey and white coarse-grained marble. Very nice crystals. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD02HCS0 Marble Highly recrystallized limestone/marble. Dark grey with white calcite veins. Billet. California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02N5S0 Marble Coarsely crystalline grey marble. With 2-5 mm layering of course and medium grained crystals California 4 Ritter 154, 3 G