GRD0014S0 |
Impure Marble
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Fine-grained brown marble. Nice relict laminae. Micrite protolith? Original description: Limestone. Horizontal recrystallized laminae. |
California |
1 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD00WJS0 |
Marble
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missing, Ordovician, White Marble |
Vermont |
0 |
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GRD00WKS0 |
Marble
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missing, Cambrian White Marble |
Georgia |
0 |
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GRD00WQS0 |
Marble
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missing, Precambrian, marble |
Wyoming |
0 |
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GRD01Y4S0 |
Impure Marble
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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 |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01Y5S0 |
Impure Marble
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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
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Pink-peach dolomite marble. Original description: dolomitic marble. |
New York |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01Y8S0 |
Calcite Marble
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Fine-grained grey marble with a few thin layers of Fe-staining. Two billets. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01Y9S0 |
Calcite Marble
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White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using a hand-lense. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01YAS0 |
Calcite Marble
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White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD01YAS1 |
Calcite Marble
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White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD01YAS2 |
Calcite Marble
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White, medium-grained marble. Some cleavage faces visible using hand-lense. See also M-385. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD01YCS0 |
Dolomite Marble
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Mottled red-pink, fine-grained dolomite marble. One clear vein crosses the sample. Billet. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD01YDS0 |
Impure Marble
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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
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Coarse-grained layers of white, grey, and pink calcite. Grey layers contain small metallic flecks. Pink layers are pink due to staining. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01YGS0 |
Calcite Marble
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Layering (relict bedding?) in coarse-grained marble. Granular (weathered). Minor amount of red and green mineralization. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01YKS0 |
Calcite Marble
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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
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Fine-grained marble cut by veinlets. Impure limestone protolith (?). |
Arizona |
1 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01YMS0 |
Impure Marble
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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. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01YNS0 |
Impure Marble
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Calcite-phlogopite-muscovite-plagioclase-quartz marble. Generally coarse-grained. Poorly foliated with granoblastic texture. |
Alpine |
5 |
Ritter 154, 3 H |
GRD01YOS0 |
Impure Marble
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Fine-grained grey and white marble. Relict bedding or structure? Large, euhedral oxidized pyrite porphyroblasts. Original description: dolomite marble, contains sulfides. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD01ZZS0 |
Impure Marble
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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
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White, granoblastic dolomite marble. Faint spots of Fe-staining. Monomineralic. See also M-425. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD0216S1 |
Dolomite Marble
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White, granoblastic dolomite marble. Faint spots of Fe-staining. Monomineralic. See also M-425. |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD02A9S0 |
Dolomite Marble
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Banding/relict bedding? Cryptocrystalline to very coarse-grained. Mainly composed of dolomite and thin, black dendrites (pyrolusite?). Original label: Chert? |
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0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD02BAS0 |
Dolomite Marble
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Coarse-grained, white dolomite marble. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD02EDS0 |
Calcite Marble
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Grey coarse-grained marble. Very nice crystals. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 14 J |
GRD02EDS1 |
Calcite Marble
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Grey and white coarse-grained marble. Very nice crystals. |
California |
0 |
Ritter 154, 24 E |
GRD02HCS0 |
Marble
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Highly recrystallized limestone/marble. Dark grey with white calcite veins. Billet. |
California |
0 |
Camp Elliott |
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 |