(PPC) Franciscan Assemblage Suite -- Panoche Pass, California

Title

(PPC) Franciscan Assemblage Suite -- Panoche Pass, California

Description

This collection consists of 20 samples taken from Panoche Pass, California. These samples are representative of rocks that can be found in the Franciscan assemblage throughout California. These rocks made up the accretionary wedge during the Nevadan Orogeny and were accreted onto the west coast of North America. Rocks in this suite range from seafloor sediments all the way to eclogite facies metamorphics.

Contributor

Western Minerals Inc.

Collection Items

Panoche Pass Western Minerals Supplementary Materials
OCR PDF of supplemental information for the Panoche Pass, California collection.

Garnet-bearing Blueschist
(exotic block)

Blueschist
Dense Blueschist

Serpentine
Dense Serpentine

Reddish Chert and Shale
Reddish chert and shale

Amphibolite (banded)
(exotic block)

Basalt-Greenstone
Altered Basalt-greenstone

Blueschist
Thinly banded Blueschist

Chert with dark riebekite
Chert with small dark riebeckite

Greywacke
Slightly metamorphosed greywacke

Hornblendite
Coarse-grained hornblendite (some specimens have a few garnets)

Blueschist
Blueschist from an outcrop in a stream bed

Eclogite
(exotic block)

Greywacke and Chert
Thin-bedded greywacke and chert.
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