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  1. Banded iron formation. The greyish color is specular hematite, the red is jasper, and the gold is tiger's eye. Sample is 26 cm across at its widest point, and was contributed by Dr. Jay Kaufman of University of Maryland.

  2. Banded iron formation with ice-rafted debris. This deep ocean stratigraphic equivalent of Ghaub diamictites indicates highly anoxic oceanic chemistry. The grey is hematite, the red is jasper, and the buff is siderite. The sample is from the Mackenzie Mountains in northwest Canada. Banded iron deposition requires tha...

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  3. Edi and Berti climbed atop a boulder of banded iron formation (BIF) in Soudan, Minnesota.

  4. Exposed in a roadcut just south of Wawa, Ontario, this is one of the Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) in a greenstone belt of the Superior Province.

  5. The same BIF seen in cross section in another roadcut exposure that's uploading, this is the top surface of that exposure where the iron formation has been glacially sculpted and polished.

  6. Here is a view of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as it appeared on March 1, 2009. I photographed this landscape as I was walking back from a weather balloon launch in the BIF. March 1st was a very calm day with the sun still high enough above the horizon to give a pleasant warmth to the -50 degree Fahrenheit...

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