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Sample Type is Metamorphic

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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD02P4S0 Non-layered Gneiss Small sample of dark colored augen gneiss with plagioclase porphyroblasts. Billets. Original label: Calif 1085-1086 are concordant with this forming a screen of metamorphic rocks SE of Muir Pass. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 A
GRD02P5S0 Relict Textures Small samples of stretched pebble conglomerate. Original label: Meta-tuff? Calif 1084-1086 are concordant with this forming a screen of metamorphic rocks SE of Muir Pass. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 O
GRD02P6S0 Mylonite Small sample of grey mylonite. Original label: Mylonite. Calif 1084-1086 are concordant with this forming a screen of metamorphic rocks SE of Muir Pass. California 2 Ritter 154, 24 I
GRD02PFS0 Ga-bearing Schist Oricopia Schist. Garnet-bearing schist cobble. One lense of quartz runs through the middle of the sample. Billets. Original label: Mecca Hills clast. Fall Field trip 1988. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD02PGS0 Ga-bearing Schist Quartz-Muscovite-Garnet-Cordierite Oricopia Schist. Garnet-bearing schist cobble. Patch of calcite on the exterior of the sample. Billets. Original label: Mecca Hills clast. Fall Field trip 1988. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD02PHS0 Quartzite Two large samples of kyanite-bearing quartzite. California 2 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02PTS0 Schist Small sample of green schist with small white feldspar augen. Original label: Orocopia Schist. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 C
GRD02PUS0 Schist Sample of folded green schist. Original label: Orocopia Schist. California 4 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02Q1S0 Mafic Two very dark and dense samples. Mostly olivine and pyroxene. Epidote? Garnets in one sample. California 2 Ritter 154, 14 H
GRD02RBS0 Greenschist Orocopia Schist. Two green schist samples. Quartz-Muscovite-Chlorite-Staurolite-Cordierite(minor) 4 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02RCS0 Ga-bearing Schist Garnet mica schist, well foliated. Muscovite-Quartz-Garnet-Chlorite-Biotite. 1 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02RDS0 Layered Gneiss Banded Gneiss, Amphibolite Facies Quartzo-Feldspathic Protolith 5 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02RES0 Ga-bearing Schist Large rotated garnet porphyroblasts, approximately 1cm. Garnet-Biotite-Muscovite-Quartz 4 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02RFS0 Phyllite Phyllite with epidote. California 3 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02RGS0 Greenschist Sheared greenschist assemblage California 6 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02RHS0 Schist Meta-graywacke phase California 1 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02RIS0 Layered Gneiss Feldspar-Quartz-Biotite Large feldspars approximately 1-2cm. 9 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02S3S0 Serpentinite Talc vein around 1 inch thick with wall rock attached(serpentinite). Occasional sulfide blebs California 0 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02S4S0 Serpentinite Coast Range Ophiolite, Cross-fracture serpentinized, bastite and opx. Black serpentine. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 G
GRD02S6S0 Serpentinite Bastite ops visible.Red hue throughout, black serpentine, Red could be cinnabar which is mined in this region. Coast range ophiolite. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 G
GRD02S7S0 Serpentinite Rich in magnetite, multiple shear directions with silken fibers. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02S8S0 Serpentinite Cross fracture serpentinized peridotite. Black serpentine. Coast Range ophiolite. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02S9S0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Magnesium silicate skarn along a fault-controlled contact of syenite to quartz monzonite. Part of Vulcan mine-Burro Prospect. California 0 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD02S9S1 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Magnesium silicate skarn along a fault-controlled contact of syenite to quartz monzonite. Part of Vulcan mine-Burro Prospect. California 0 Ritter 154, 24 M
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
GRD02T2S0 Serpentinite Anastomosing texture with serpentine weathering white on exterior. Appears to have bronzite within red patches. Trinity Ophiolite-Eunice Bluff Float California 0 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02T7S0 Augen Gneiss Meta-gneiss containing large K-spars(2-3 cm) intermingled with quartz and biotite. Moderately developed foliation Brazil 0 Ritter 154, 14 B
GRD02T8S0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Garnet-Calcite-Epidote-Quartz 0 Ritter 154, 14 K
GRD02TAS0 Porphyroblasts Staurolite-Garnet Schist. Large Staurolite porphyroblasts(1-2 cm) with garnets(~1 mm), micaceous. Unknown origin. 0 Ritter 154, 14 O
GRD02TBS0 Ga-bearing Schist Garnet Amphibolite with Staurolite. Micaceous schist with small (<1mm) garnet porphyroblasts and (~4-7mm) staurolite porphyroblasts. 0 Ritter 154, 14 C