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A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Epidote vein in granite, near Mt. Whitney, Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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| Description | This rock split open along a vein of epidote. The epidote formed from feldspar interacting with water that flowed along a fracture in the rock. This sort of secondary mineralization is quite common in feldspar-containing rocks, although usually not to the extent shown here. |
| Geologic province | Sierra Nevada |
| Location | USA ▹ California. Photo from the John Muir Trail. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2002-01-27. |
| Collection | JMT-16. |
| Key words | epiodte, granite, Sierra Nevada |
| Tech details | 587 KB. Outcrop. Olympus LT. |
| GeoDIL number | 2203 |
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