Metagabbro
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Description:
A sample of altered or metamorphosed gabbro (metagabbro), green in color due to replacement, by chlorite, of the dark green to black iron-bearing silicate minerals in the rock. It was collected about eight miles northwest of Newberry, c. 1972.
- Site: Newberry Co.
- Site Number: SC6
- Dimensions: H-14 W-18 D-25 cm
- Rock type: Metamorphic
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Metamorphic Rock
- Object Id: GR53
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