A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Unakite, Rockbridge County, Virginia |
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| Description | This metamorphic rock contains light green epidote, orange-pink K-feldspar, white patches of quartz, and minor accessory minerals. Such rocks are sometimes called “unakite”, named after the Unaka Range, the type locality on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. This sample is 9 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Virginia ▹ Rockbridge |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-04-26. |
| Collection | Ward’s University Rock Collection #197. |
| Key words | unakite, Virginia |
| Tech details | 835 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera, 60mm Nikon AF micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 435 |
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