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Gneissic metasandstone and schist showing extreme metamorphic reconstitution in the Ocoee series. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Swain County, North Carolina. Circa 1950.

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1950

Summary

Album caption and index card: Gneissic metasandstone and schist showing extreme metamorphic reconstitution in the Ocoee series. The more argillaceious beds consist of segregation lenses of biotite schist and of quartz-feldspar rock similar in composition to the lighter colored metasandstone beds. Small lenses and pods of pegmatite have formed in both types of rock. Roadside quarry on southwest flank of Ela dome. Eastern Great Smoky Mountains. Swain County, North Carolina. ca. 1950. Published as Figure 43 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 349-B. 1963.

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Hadley, Jarvis Bardwell

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