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Silica-carbonate rock, Red Devil mine, Sleetmute area, Kuskokwim region, Alaska, ca. 1943.

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1943

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Silica-carbonate rock exposed at the Red Devil mine, Sleetmute area. The silica-carbonate rock (s-c) trends roughly parallel to the bedding of the shale(sh), which is heavily fractured and locally brecciated; vein quartz (q) fills the openings in the shale, and cinnabar occurs in veins and irregular openings within and at the contacts of the silica-carbonate rock. Kuskokwim region, Alaska, ca. 1943. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 268, Plate 9. 1955.

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Cady, Willoughby Miller

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Image located in the U.S.Geological Survey Photographic Collection, Cady, W.M. Collection album, volume 1, no.246.

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name photoLibrary cwm00246
number photoLibrary 6015
batch photoLibrary btch458
number_in_book photoLibrary 246

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