Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Chlorite in there somewhere

Chlorite announces its presence in a rock by giving it an appearance of moldy bread. Other than that, chlorite is too fine-grained to be seen other than in a high power microsope.

This cobble of a phyllitic sedimentary breccia from the Aliakmon River is full of chlorite.

If you saw this in your bread box, you'd chuck it. Posted by Picasa

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