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Description: | A piece of a metamorphic rock known as Gneiss. The specimen has alternating pink and dark grey banding known as gneissose banding. The bands vary in thickness with the pink bands forming the thickest (up to18mm) and the dark grey forming the thinner ones (up to 8mm). The specimen has a coarse crystalline texture. This specimen was collected from Ben Wyes. On the back of the specimen there is an area where a label used to be. AR/CB
A fragment of Gneiss from Ben Wyes | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Mineralogy Geology | Temporal: | Precambrian? | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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