(NWME) Northwest Maine Metamorphic Suite -- Maine

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(NWME) Northwest Maine Metamorphic Suite -- Maine

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NWME Suite PDF

Coarse

Includes sillimanite and K-spar

higher metamorphic grade than specimen one, lower than speciment 3

with sillimanite retrograde, bedding has been destroyed and turned into "soup"

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

higher than average amount of graphite present

Show muscovite psuedomorphs and large staurolite crystals

Intricate banding

Staurolite rimmed with muscovite

Some remnants of andalusite

Moslty conglomerates, but partly staurolite rimmed with muscovite

Garnets and chlorite in pelitic bands

Grade bedded layers of pelitic bands and thin sandstones

Sulfur-rich

Some chlorite
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