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Sample Type is Metamorphic › Granoblastic

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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD02JES0 Blueschist Nice blueschist hand sample and thin section. Large sparrite vein in both. 1 Ritter 154, 14 D
GRD02N5S0 Marble Coarsely crystalline grey marble. With 2-5 mm layering of course and medium grained crystals California 4 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02NFS0 Eclogite Original description: Eclogite, Lawsonite locality (Tiburon Uplands Nature Preserve) 2 hand samples. California 5 Ritter 154, 3 H
GRD02NLS0 Blueschist Large sample of blue schist. Sample is fine-grained. California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02NVS0 Blueschist Garnet bearing blueschist with stringers of green minerals. Original label: From a knocker. Garnet, pumpellyite, phueugite? California 4 Ritter 154, 3 G
GRD02O0S0 Impure Marble Small sample of marble. Portions of marble are white, brown, and green. Original label: Marble. Schist pendant. California 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
GRD02O7S0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Banded hornfels. The lighter layers appear to be more siliceous. California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02O8S0 Blueschist Blueschist with thin white carbonate veins cross-cutting the foliation. Some green mineralization on surface. Portion of a cobble. California 4 Ritter 154, 3 G
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
GRD02OMS0 Serpentinite Small green sample of serpentinite with carbonate veins. Pillow margin. Franciscan. California 3 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02ONS0 Serpentinite Small green sample of serpentinite with carbonate veins. Pillow margin. Franciscan. California 3 Ritter 154, 14 M
GRD02OSS0 Quartzofeldspathic Small sample of fine-grained gneiss. Thin, poorly developed bands in gniess. Feldspar-quartz-biotite. Original label: Meta-tuff? Stage 3. California 3 Ritter 154, 24 A
GRD02OTS0 Calcsilicate (Skarn) Very small, very fine-grained sample. Original label: Meta-tuff? - Hornfels?. California 3 Camp Elliott
GRD02OUS0 Quartzofeldspathic Two small, dark, very fine-grained samples. Original label: Meta-tuff? - Hornfels?. California 3 Camp Elliott
GRD02PHS0 Quartzite Two large samples of kyanite-bearing quartzite. California 2 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
GRD02RGS0 Greenschist Sheared greenschist assemblage California 6 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