A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Marble breccia, Madoc, Ontario, Canada |
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| Description | Breccias are coarse grained clastic rocks composed of large angular and broken rock fragments. They are related to conglomerates, but conglomerates contain rounded clasts. Many breccias are made of siliceous minerals, but this one is almost all calcite. The rock fragments are up to about 1 cm across. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Ontario. Near Madoc. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-05-16. |
| Collection | Ward’s University Rock Collection #138. |
| Key words | breccia |
| Tech details | 1.26 MB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera, 60mm Nikon AF micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 467 |
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