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  • Title is exactly "Staurolite schist"

Mineralogy: quartz, feldspar, biotite, staurolite. Foliated. Foliation caused by biotite, staurolite is porphyroblastic. Biotite-staurolite-schist. Staurolite Zone.

DUCO-9 hand sample of staurolite schist
Schist with coarse staurolite grains. This outcropping is approximately on the strike of the chloritoid schists (sample 7). Also contains garnet, muscovite, feldspar, and quartz. Presumed to be from the Everett Schist.

The thin section shows…

Mica-based schist with porphyroblasts of staurolite.

includes some sillimanite and occurs in distinct bands

Isoclinal folding and cross bedding, spelitic and sandy beds all present

Staurolite rimmed with muscovite

Some remnants of andalusite

Moslty conglomerates, but partly staurolite rimmed with muscovite

Sillimanite has been partly psuedomorphed
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