Saturday, March 19, 2011

Buck Creek ultramafic body - unaltered dunite grading into chloritized dunite

Click on image to enlarge.          Photo © Daniel R. Snyder
Portion of a thin section showing unaltered dunite (left) grading to heavily chloritized dunite (right). Buck Creek ultramafic body, Blue Ridge Mountains, Clay County, western North Carolina. Macrophoto, XPL. Imaged area 10 mm x 20 mm.

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