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Papoose Flat Pluton Contact and Marginal Gneissic Facies
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| Left: Unbroken concordant contact between granite and country rocks (highlighted by light brown line) is well exposed and dips moderately left. ©A.G. Sylvester 1963. | Right: Strongly foliated granite near contact at west end of Papoose Flat. Hammer is 38 cm-long. Quartzite sills are parallel to hammer handle. Large K-feldspar megacrysts are randomly oriented in the foliation. ©A.G. Sylvester, 1963. |
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| Strongly foliated granite sill in Campito quartz schist, exposed along north contact of west half of Papoose Flat pluton. ©A.G. Sylvester, 1963. |
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