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Mica-based schist with porphyroblasts of staurolite.

Dark-colored slate that is slightly phyllitic.

Black slate

Muscovite-sillimanite schist where much of the sillimanite has been somewhat altered to muscovite. This sample may also contain muscovite pseudomorphs after staurolite.

Muscovite-biotite schist containing large sillimanite crystals-mostly retrograded to muscovite

Mica-based schist containing significant quartz

This foliated sample is dominated by micas and quartz. It is a sample from the Hubbard Hill member.

Gneiss with a migmatitic fabric. Also contains quartz-feldspar pods.

Micaceous schist containing staurolite. Note that the staurolite is only found in the pelitic layers and is absent in the quartz-rich layers

Muscovite-biotite schist

Synkinematic deformed gneiss w/ augen-like feldspar ribbons

Example of the Dakin Hill Member. Porphyroblastic gneiss.

Described as a "banded injection gneiss".

Micaceous schist containing porphyroblasts of garnet and staurolite.

Phyllite containing porphyroblasts of garnet

Dark, banded

Mica schist containing coarse (altered) andalusite crystals

Mica-based schist containing porphyroblasts of andalusite (chiastolite) which have been partly retrograded to muscovite