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  1. Anorthosites metamorphosed to granulite facies underly most of the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. This sample illustrates beautiful examples of garnet coronas around pyroxenes. This one's for you, Chief!

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  2. Teeming with garnets big and small, fresh and weathered, the Setters Schist is a muscovite schist metamorphosed from a pelitic protolith in (presumably) the Taconian orogeny. It also features staurolite, which is present in this sample, and kyanite, which isn't. Sample collected in Sparks, MD. Image made as part ...

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  3. This outcrop of the late Ordovician Martinsburg Formation is located on Route 644 in Shenandoah County, about 20 feet above the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. GigaPan Stitch seems to have had some issues putting it together, which is frustrating. Still, there's a lot to be seen. At this outcrop, bedding is o...

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  4. This outcrop of the late Ordovician Martinsburg Formation is located on Route 644 in Shenandoah County, about 60 feet above the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. At this outcrop, bedding is oriented 042°, 72° (right hand rule: it strikes N42°E, and dips 72° to the southeast). Cleavage is oriented 212°, 83° (...

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  5. The Wilhite Slate is pictured with a series of folds.

  6. Serpentinite from the Josephine ophiolite sequence collected north of Gasquet, CA.

  7. Metamorphosed mudstone, stratigraphically above (east) of the Weverton Formation here in the easternmost Blue Ridge province. Exposure is on the railroad tracks just north of Chapman's Mill, at Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia.

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  9. Garnets weathering out of a boulder of gneiss (Tolland County, CT). Tried to get nice morning light on the vein containing the reddish garnets - was hard with the trees, though... the leaves were almost as bad as the clouds!

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  10. Just a few yards up the road from www.gigapan.org/gigapans/47766/ ... Hand sample pan: gigapan.org/gigapans/72884/ Thin section: gigapan.org/gigapans/72751/

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