A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Jaspilite, Ishpeming, Michigan |
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| Description | This rock contains bands of red jasper (quartz), red-brown hematite, and occasional thin bands of specular hematite. Veinlets of milky quartz criss-cross the rock but are hard to see in hand specimen. This specimen, from part of the Negaunee Iron Formation, is 9.5 cm across. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Precambrian |
| Lithostratigraphy | Negaunee Iron Formation |
| Location | USA ▹ Michigan. Near Ishpeming. |
| Photographer | Mike Davis. 2001-04-26. |
| Collection | Ward’s University Rock Collection #99. |
| Key words | jaspilite, Michigan, Negaunee |
| Tech details | 729 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera, 60mm Nikon AF micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 411 |
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