Browse Items (25 total)

  • Collection: (ADK) Anorthosite-Charnockite and Metamorphic Suite --
    Adirondack Mountains, New York

Charnockite
This particular charnockite has been described, with analyses by deWaard and Romey, "Petrogenetic Relationships in the Anorthosite-Charnockite Series of the Snowy Mountain Dome," in Anorthosite Volume, New York State Museum Memoir 18, p.307-315. In…

Charnockite
This charnockite is similiar to most of the Adirondack charnockites that occur interlayered with other metastratified units. Like its analogues, the Canada Lake charnockite shows conformable realationships with enveloping units. Mineralogically,…

Calcsilicate rock
Minerals found in the calcsilicate facies contain quartz, diopside, enstatitic pyroxene, tremolite, calcite, and phlogopite. However, only a few thin sections have been found to contain all phases. In some specimens, the pyroxene is close to 100%…

Anorthosite
The specimen was collected from the Oregon Dome Massif. The Oregon Dome is similar in all respects to the anorthosites described and analyzed by Buddington (1939) for the Adirondack High Peaks region (Marcy Massif). Texturally, the present specimens…

adk_description.pdf
OCR PDF of supplemental information for the Anorthosite-Charnockite Metamorphic Suite-Adirondack Mountains, New York collection.
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2