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| GHL NO | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| 93 | Gneiss. Non Loc. |
| 94 | Gneiss. Silicic migmatitic gneiss with compositional layering. Glen Tarbert. |
| 95 | Gneiss. Psammitic gneiss with spaced compositional layering. Glenfinnan Division. Glen Tarbert. |
| 132 | Slate. Bethesda quarry, Snowdonia. |
| 142 | Slate. Bethesda quarry, Snowdonia |
| 180 | Gneiss. Migmatitic gneiss. Burgeo, Newfoundland. |
| 197 | Gneiss. Amistoq Gneiss with Nuk pegmatite. Amistoq, West Greenland |
| 205 | Gneiss. Granulitic gneiss. East of Cluanie, Glen Morriston, Northwest Highlands of Scotland. |
| 209 | Psammite. Specimen shows 1cm banding. Aigas, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland. |
| 211 | Migmatite. Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland. |
| 230 | Gneiss. Folded psammitic migmatite gneiss. Non Loc. |
| 231 | Gneiss. Garnet in gneiss. Lochind, Scotland. |
| 232 | Garnets in banded metamorphic rock, Canada |
| 233 | Necked pegmatite in migmatitic bi-gneiss, Swordly Bay |
| 234 | Garnet porphyroblasts. Kinloch Hourn, West Highlands of Scotland. |
| 235 | Gneiss. Swarm of quartz plates in gneiss, Grenville, Canada |
| 236 | Gneiss. Non Loc. |
| 238 | Eclogite. Non Loc. |
| 239 | Migmatite. Non Loc. |
| 240 | Migmatites. Burgeo Road, newfoundland. |
| 241 | Garnet. Shown in garnet-hornblende metabasite (metamorphosed mafic rock). Near Loch Ruthven, Scotland. |
| 243 | Serpentinite (metamorphic rock mostly composed of serpentine group minerals). Rock shows chromite layering. West Gander River, Newfoundland. |
| 244 | Metamorphosed mafic igneous rock. Amphibole formed after xenolithic dyke. Ameralic dyke, Amistag, W Greenland. |
| 246 | Garnet skarn. Thorr, Donegal. |
| 247 | Gneiss. Gabbroic anorthosite with original texture despite early Archaean + early Proterozoic deformation. Angmagssalik, E Greenland. |
| 248 | Mylonite. Garnet overprints in mylonite. Great Lakes. |
| 249 | Gneiss. Shear zone in migmatitic gneiss. Stare Miasto in Czech Republic. |
| 250 | Gneiss. Grey gneiss with concordant bands. Cut by pink pegmatitic gneiss. North West Harris, Scotland. |
| 251 | Anorthosite. Kelyphite rims on garnet in anorthosite. (nb Kelyphite is intergrown brown picotite (spinel) and aluminous pyroxenes) South Harris, Scotland. |
| 252 | Mylonite. Thin section view. |
| 254 | Gneiss. Semipelitic gneiss. Lochindorb, Strathspey |
| 255 | Gneiss. Augen structure. Non Loc. |
| 256 | Gneiss. Injection gneiss. East of Kirtomy (NE of Bettyhill), Scotland |
| 257 | Silic-semipel gneissic metaseds - migmatised. Glen Urquhart, Scottish Highlands(1) |
| 258 | Silic-semipel gneissic metaseds - migmatised. Glen Urquhart, Scottish Highlands(2) |
| 261 | K-felds augen gneiss in matrix. Rims around K-feld = granulation. Schlieren of amphibolitic material. Clerkhill, Bettyhill, Sutherland |
| 263 | Garnet: crystals overprinting main foliation (S2) in Mesozoic calc-schists (Bündnerschiefer). Alps |
| 264 | Augen gneiss. Non loc. |
| 265 | Folded gneiss. Late folds in Grenville gneiss, Great Lakes. |
| 266 | Migmatitic granitic gneiss. Grenville gneiss, Great Lakes. |
| 267 | Metagabbro. Layered metagabbro, SW Greenland |
| 269 | Sheared serpentinite. Baie Verte Line, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland |
| 270 | Gneiss. Gneissic psammite. Early shearing. Glendessary, Scotland |
| 275 | Mylonite. Porphyroclasts after pebbles in mylonite. West of Tongue, Sutherland |
| 276 | Mylonite schist with oblate, stretched quartz & quartz/ feldspar pebbles. West of Tongue |
| 349 | Mylonite. Windsor Pt Group. Coast. Nova Scotia |
| 696 | Gneiss. Folded gneiss. Ilulissat, West Greenland. Precambrian shield. |
| 697 | Geiss. Folded gneiss. Ilulissat, West Greenland. Precambrian shield. |
| 698 | Banded gneiss. Ilulissat, West Greenland. Precambrian shield. |
| 699 | Gneiss. Migmatitic orthogneiss with intrusive granite sheets & veins. Atta, west of Eqi, West Greenland. |
| 700 | Contact metamorphism in Carboniferous sediments below Whin sill (quartz dolerite). (Sill forms well-jointed rock at the top of the section) High Force, Northumbria. |
| 703 | Augen gneiss. Non Loc. |
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