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  <title><![CDATA[1A Collections]]></title>
  <subtitle><![CDATA[Rocks, minerals and fossils collections for Part 1A students]]></subtitle>
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    <name><![CDATA[Department of Earth Sciences]]></name>
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    <title><![CDATA[<h2><strong>L310<br /></strong></h2>
<h2>Breccia</h2>]]></title>
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<h3>Hand Specimen</h3>
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<p>Very poorly sorted.Angular to sub-angular clasts up to 30 mm long. Randomly orientated.<span> </span><br />Clasts mainly pale grey, some white, some red.<span> </span><br />Red-brown colour of the fine-grained matrix indicates<span> </span><span>iron staining</span>.<span> </span><br />Matrix and some clasts fizz with acid, indicating that they are made of carbonate. This is a limestone.</p>
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<h3>Thin-section</h3>
<div class="element-text">Variety of clasts: sedimentary rock fragments, carbonate and feldspar crystals, fine-grained quartz and carbonate, some bioclasts. Clasts are quite angular.<br />Matrix of very fine-grained clays containing fragments of quartz and carbonate.</div>
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<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">Clast-supported. Clasts are angular, so sediments cannot have been transported far. (NB, if this rock were matrix supported the clasts could have been transported a long way without losing their angularity.)<span> </span><br />Probably scree accumulation during desert conditions, from approximately the same horizon as L326.</div>
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<h3>Advanced Notes</h3>
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<p><span>Iron-staining</span><span> </span><br />Hematite (Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) → red (blood-red, cherry-red, brown-red) iron-staining<span> </span><br />Limonite (FeO(OH)•nH<sub>2</sub>O) → yellow or brown iron-staining</p>
<p>The red-brown colour of this rock is probably produced by hematite.</p>
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<h3>Rock Name</h3>
<div class="element-text">breccia</div>
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    <updated>2019-07-04T09:52:06+01:00</updated>
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                    <div class="element-text"><h2><strong>L310<br /></strong></h2>
<h2>Breccia</h2></div>
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<p>Permian</p>
<h3>Location</h3>
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<p>Brockram, Cumbria</p>
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        <h3>Description</h3>
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<p>Very poorly sorted.Angular to sub-angular clasts up to 30 mm long. Randomly orientated.<span> </span><br />Clasts mainly pale grey, some white, some red.<span> </span><br />Red-brown colour of the fine-grained matrix indicates<span> </span><span>iron staining</span>.<span> </span><br />Matrix and some clasts fizz with acid, indicating that they are made of carbonate. This is a limestone.</p>
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<h3>Thin-section</h3>
<div class="element-text">Variety of clasts: sedimentary rock fragments, carbonate and feldspar crystals, fine-grained quartz and carbonate, some bioclasts. Clasts are quite angular.<br />Matrix of very fine-grained clays containing fragments of quartz and carbonate.</div>
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<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">Clast-supported. Clasts are angular, so sediments cannot have been transported far. (NB, if this rock were matrix supported the clasts could have been transported a long way without losing their angularity.)<span> </span><br />Probably scree accumulation during desert conditions, from approximately the same horizon as L326.</div>
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<h3>Advanced Notes</h3>
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<p><span>Iron-staining</span><span> </span><br />Hematite (Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) → red (blood-red, cherry-red, brown-red) iron-staining<span> </span><br />Limonite (FeO(OH)•nH<sub>2</sub>O) → yellow or brown iron-staining</p>
<p>The red-brown colour of this rock is probably produced by hematite.</p>
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<h3>Rock Name</h3>
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    <title><![CDATA[<h2><strong>L200<br /></strong></h2>
<h2>Volcanic Breccia</h2>]]></title>
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<h3>Hand Specimen</h3>
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<p>Sedimentary textures, very poorly sorted.<span> </span><br />Sub-round to angular grains up to 20mm across.<span> </span><br />Wide variety of clasts: dark purple, cream, rusty orange, grey, several types of lava.<span> </span><br />Some black, shiny igneous crystals.<span> </span><br />Brown-grey matrix of<span> </span><a href="/p1acollections/items/show/266">volcanic</a><span> </span>ash.</p>
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<h3>Thin section</h3>
<div class="element-text">Wide range of clasts including<br />- Basalt<br />- Slate or phyllite<br />- Schist<br />- Chert<br />- Sandstone<br />- Carbonate<br />- Quartz<br /><br />Matrix of fine volcanic ash.</div>
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<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">This is an example of the coarser type of material deposited by explosive volcanic action.<br /><br />NB,<br />This is not a typical volcanic breccia, as one usually sees a greater abundance of igneous clasts; other clasts could be wall-rock. Another name for this rock could be “lithic wacke”.</div>
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<h3>Rock Name</h3>
<div class="element-text">volcanic breccia<br />lithic wacke</div>
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    <updated>2019-07-04T09:52:05+01:00</updated>
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<h2>Volcanic Breccia</h2></div>
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        <h3>Subject</h3>
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<p>Carboniferous</p>
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<p>Sedimentary textures, very poorly sorted.<span> </span><br />Sub-round to angular grains up to 20mm across.<span> </span><br />Wide variety of clasts: dark purple, cream, rusty orange, grey, several types of lava.<span> </span><br />Some black, shiny igneous crystals.<span> </span><br />Brown-grey matrix of<span> </span><a href="/p1acollections/items/show/266">volcanic</a><span> </span>ash.</p>
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<h3>Thin section</h3>
<div class="element-text">Wide range of clasts including<br />- Basalt<br />- Slate or phyllite<br />- Schist<br />- Chert<br />- Sandstone<br />- Carbonate<br />- Quartz<br /><br />Matrix of fine volcanic ash.</div>
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<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">This is an example of the coarser type of material deposited by explosive volcanic action.<br /><br />NB,<br />This is not a typical volcanic breccia, as one usually sees a greater abundance of igneous clasts; other clasts could be wall-rock. Another name for this rock could be “lithic wacke”.</div>
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