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Gallery: High-Al Gassetts Schist from Vermont

High-Al Gassetts Schist from Vermont

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An assortment of thin section photomicrographs of high-Al, garnet, chloritoid, +/- staurolite schist from southern Vermont.

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  1. Field of view is approximately 15 by 20 mm. Crossed polarized light. Thin section of a chloritoid (shades of gray) schist. Muscovite is brightly colored and chlorite is brown. Zonal crenulation cleavage is nearly vertical. Taken with the automated thin section imaging system at Williams College

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  2. Field of view is approximately 15 by 20 mm. Plane polarized light. Thin section of a chloritoid (pleochroic blue, green, and yellow) schist. Muscovite is nearly white and chlorite is brown. Zonal crenulation cleavage is nearly vertical. Taken with the automated thin section imaging system at Williams College

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  3. Field of view is approximatly 15 by 20 mm. Crossed polars. Image is a garnet-chloritoid schist from Jamaica, Vermont. Large porphyroblast of garnet (nearly opaque) contains gently curved inclusion trail of chloritoid. Chloritoid is appears as shades of gray. Well developed crenulation cleavage in right third and lower ...

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  4. Field of view is approximatly 15 by 20 mm. Image is a garnet-chloritoid schist from Jamaica, Vermont. Large porphyroblast of garnet contains gently curved inclusion trail of chloritoid. Pleochroic chloritoid is blue, green, and yellow. Well developed crenulation cleavage in right third and lower left corner of image. ...

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  5. Thin section photograph with crossed polarized light. Garnet, staurolite, kyanite, biotite, muscovite schist of the Gassetts Schist. Field of view is approximately 20 by 20 mm. Taken with an automated system at Williams College.

  6. Thin section photograph with plane polarized light. Garnet, staurolite, kyanite, biotite, muscovite schist of the Gassetts Schist. Field of view is approximately 20 by 20 mm. Taken with an automated system at Williams College.

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