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Sawed slab of amygdaloid breccia. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.

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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Sawed slab of amygdaloid breccia. Slab is from the outcrop on the south side of the road about 500 feet southeast of Big Meadows Lodge. The angular blocks are probably pieces of frothy lava crust that formed at the top of the flow. The crust was broken by continued movement of the still-molten lava beneath, and jumbled pieces were rafted along and were eventually frozen in place when the flow came to rest and solidified. During later metamorphism the amygdules and some of the interstices between the blocks were filled with white quartz and yellow-green epidote. Locally, part of the rock has been altered to epidosite, a fine- grained light-green aggregate of epidote and quartz. The arcuate lines in [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
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Owens, J.P.

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name photoLibrary rjcj0034
number photoLibrary 29832
batch photoLibrary batch72
number_in_book photoLibrary 34

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