Igneous Plutonic Slide Show
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Quartz diorite, Ecstall Pluton, B.C.. Quartz diorite hand sample from Ecstall Pluton, B.C.. Mafic dykes cutting gneiss, near Terrace BC Beaverdell Granite, from Kettle River Valley, B.C.. K-spar megacrysts weathering out of the Tuolumne granodiorite, CA.
A cumulate gabbro core from OKG prospect, Labrador. Igneous cross-bedding, OKG prospect, Labrador. Cumulate layering, NBK prospect, Labrador. Layered mafic intrusion, OKG prospect, Labrador. Cumulate layering in a gabbro from Muskox intrusion, N.W.T..
Gabbro from the Fidalgo Island Complex, WA. Mining gold in quartz vein, Susie Mine near Oliver, B.C.. Similkameen Mine, porphry copper deposit, near Princeton, B.C.. Antinouri Lake granite, NB. Tourmaline pegmatite from Black Hills of SD.
Hornblende pegmatitic segregation, CA. Lornex Pit at Highland Valley Copper Mine, B.C.. Copper ore. Note quartz veins containing chalcopyrite and bornite, Highland Valley, B.C.. Chalcopyrite and bornite in ore from Highland Valley, B.C.. Very fine-grained copper ore from Highland Valley, B.C..
Fault zone at the edge of Lornex Pit, Highland Valley, B.C.. Alternate angle, displaying fault zone at Lornex Pit, Highland Valley, B.C.. Valley Pit at the Highland Valley Copper Mine with old Bethlehem copper tailings in the background. Beaverdell granite, from Kettle River Valley, B.C..
All slides by Dr. ML.Bevier.
Copyright © 2002 Dept. Earth and Ocean Sciences,
The University of British Columbia.