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Sample Type is Metamorphic

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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
GRD0014S0 Impure Marble Fine-grained brown marble. Nice relict laminae. Micrite protolith? Original description: Limestone. Horizontal recrystallized laminae. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 J
GRD0015S0 Quartzite Metamorphosed quartz sandstone (minor plag), partially recrystallized. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 L
GRD001LS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Syenite/Diorite mixture. Little to no foliation. Small garnets in melanosomes. Fenner gneiss? Original label: Trachyte porphyry. California 1 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD001SS0 Granulite Amphibole stringers in feldspar. Original description: gabbro injected by syenite/granite. New York 1 Ritter 154, 14 N
GRD0028S0 Eclogite No hand sample; Thin section is in Thin Section only case in RH 154. Norway 1 Ritter 154
GRD002JS0 Granulite Small sample. Original label: contains Quartz, Hy, Feld. See also I-98, I-99. India 0 Ritter 154, 14 N
GRD002KS0 Granulite Small sample. Original label: Quartz: Hy: Feld. See also I-97, I-99. Sri Lanka 0 Ritter 154, 14 N
GRD002LS0 Granulite Small sample. Original label: Quartz: Hy: Feld. See also I-97, I-98. India 0 Ritter 154, 14 N
GRD002SS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Small sample, mostly composed of clear feldspar with a few black amphibole. Very porous/vuggy. Germany 0 Ritter 154, 24 E
GRD002TS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Four very small samples that are mostly composed of clear wollastonite with flecks of red garnet and green diopside. Granulite facies. Original description: Wo-Ga-Di. New York 0 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD002VS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Tremolite-apatite-magnetite-calcite-perovskite- kimzeyite (?) Arkansas 0 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD003WS0 Blueschist Franciscan Formation. Glaucophane schist (?). Thin discontinuous, folded bands of glaucophane (?) and quartz. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD003XS0 Greenschist Green with calcite veins. No foliation. Original description: Altered Basalt. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 C
GRD008MS0 Quartzofeldspathic Small cut sample. Original label: Hess p.52-55 Cordierite: Hypersthene: Quartz: Hornfels. Montana 1 Ritter 154, 14 N
GRD00AJS0 Metamorphic Antigorite serpentine. (PTS: Metamorphic??) Guatemala 0 Camp Elliott
GRD00F7S0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Large, coarse-grained sample. Calcite>>micas (biotite and muscovite)> hedenbergite> oxides. Original description: impure coarse grained marble, light brown (hedenbergite?), micas. 0 Ritter 154, 14 I
GRD00FGS0 Metamorphic Structures Large sample. Coarse-grained marble with coarse-grained mafic inclusions surrounded by light tan reaction zone. Cc-Amph-Ol-Phlog-Biotite with rusty blebs in mafic inclusions. 0 Ritter 154, 14 I
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
GRD00UNS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Large sample composed of irregular bands of clear (calcite), grey, and bright green minerals (Vesuvianite? Epidote?). Original description: epidote-mineralized rock? hydrothermal alteration? California 0 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD00VUS0 Slate Red slate, Nettawee Slate, Cambrian. No hand sample; Thin section in thin section only case in RH 154. New York 1 Ritter 154
GRD00WJS0 Marble missing, Ordovician, White Marble Vermont 0
GRD00WKS0 Marble missing, Cambrian White Marble Georgia 0
GRD00WQS0 Marble missing, Precambrian, marble Wyoming 0
GRD01FYS0 Metamorphic Quartz, hornblende/pyroxene, muscovite. Small hand sample. Original description: Typical Precambrian crystalline rocks under Flathead quartzite. Wyoming 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01GBS0 Non-layered Gneiss Original description: Specimen from gneissic rocks at Lizard Point, Late Paleozoic. United Kingdom 0 Camp Elliott
GRD01GCS0 Serpentinite Original description: Serpentinite, Late Paleozoic. United Kingdom 0 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD01N9S0 Augen Gneiss Original description: Monte Rosa augen gniess from a quarry close to photographed outcrop. Italy 0
GRD01NAS0 Metamorphic Italy 0