GRD02JES0 |
Blueschist
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Nice blueschist hand sample and thin section. Large sparrite vein in both. |
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1 |
Ritter 154, 14 D |
GRD02N5S0 |
Marble
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Coarsely crystalline grey marble. With 2-5 mm layering of course and medium grained crystals |
California |
4 |
Ritter 154, 3 G |
GRD02NFS0 |
Eclogite
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Original description: Eclogite, Lawsonite locality (Tiburon Uplands Nature Preserve) 2 hand samples. |
California |
5 |
Ritter 154, 3 H |
GRD02NLS0 |
Blueschist
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Large sample of blue schist. Sample is fine-grained. |
California |
0 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02NVS0 |
Blueschist
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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
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Small sample of marble. Portions of marble are white, brown, and green. Original label: Marble. Schist pendant. |
California |
0 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02O3S0 |
Quartzite
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Two slabs slightly bedded quartzite. |
California |
3 |
Ritter 154, 14 L |
GRD02O4S0 |
Quartzite
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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
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Fine-grained quartzite. Original description: Siliceous schist. Schist pendant. |
California |
2 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02O7S0 |
Calcsilicate (Skarn)
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Banded hornfels. The lighter layers appear to be more siliceous. |
California |
0 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02O8S0 |
Blueschist
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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
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Very small sample of fine-grained gray and Fe-stained quartzite. |
California |
3 |
Ritter 154, 14 L |
GRD02OJS0 |
Quartzite
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Very small sample of fine-grained gray and Fe-stained quartzite. Faint laminations. |
California |
3 |
Ritter 154, 14 L |
GRD02OMS0 |
Serpentinite
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Small green sample of serpentinite with carbonate veins. Pillow margin. Franciscan. |
California |
3 |
Ritter 154, 14 M |
GRD02ONS0 |
Serpentinite
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Small green sample of serpentinite with carbonate veins. Pillow margin. Franciscan. |
California |
3 |
Ritter 154, 14 M |
GRD02OSS0 |
Quartzofeldspathic
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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)
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Very small, very fine-grained sample. Original label: Meta-tuff? - Hornfels?. |
California |
3 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02OUS0 |
Quartzofeldspathic
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Two small, dark, very fine-grained samples. Original label: Meta-tuff? - Hornfels?. |
California |
3 |
Camp Elliott |
GRD02PHS0 |
Quartzite
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Two large samples of kyanite-bearing quartzite. |
California |
2 |
Ritter 154, 3 H |
GRD02Q1S0 |
Mafic
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Two very dark and dense samples. Mostly olivine and pyroxene. Epidote? Garnets in one sample. |
California |
2 |
Ritter 154, 14 H |
GRD02RBS0 |
Greenschist
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Orocopia Schist. Two green schist samples. Quartz-Muscovite-Chlorite-Staurolite-Cordierite(minor) |
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4 |
Ritter 154, 3 H |
GRD02RGS0 |
Greenschist
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Sheared greenschist assemblage |
California |
6 |
Ritter 154, 3 G |
GRD02S3S0 |
Serpentinite
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Talc vein around 1 inch thick with wall rock attached(serpentinite). Occasional sulfide blebs |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 M |
GRD02S4S0 |
Serpentinite
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Coast Range Ophiolite, Cross-fracture serpentinized, bastite and opx. Black serpentine. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 24 G |
GRD02S6S0 |
Serpentinite
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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
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Rich in magnetite, multiple shear directions with silken fibers. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 M |
GRD02S8S0 |
Serpentinite
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Cross fracture serpentinized peridotite. Black serpentine. Coast Range ophiolite. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 M |
GRD02S9S0 |
Calcsilicate (Skarn)
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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)
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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
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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 |