Gneiss
![](/assets/images/timthumb/timthumb.php?1717521168&w=800&h=&src=/assets/images/collection/147/gr262.jpg)
Contact The Charleston Museum for image use and credit instructions.
Description:
A sample of gneiss containing white quartz with considerable black mica collected from Broad River, Nesbitts Island, 3.5 miles northwest of Blacksburg, c. 1900.
- Site: SC; Cherokee Co.
- Site Number: NH44
- Dimensions: H-2.3 W-5.9 D-7.9 cm
- Rock type: Metamorphic
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Metamorphic Rock
- Object Id: GR262
- Search Terms