- The
purpose of the
expedition was to
obtain blocks of bekhen-stone (
metagraywacke sandstone) to be used for
statues of the king. The map
shows a 15-kilometre...
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include Basalts, schists, bekhen-stone (an
especially prized green metagraywacke sandstone used for bowls, palettes, statues, and sarcophagi) and gold-containing...
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modern time.
Typical materials known from this site are:
Basalt Basanite Metagraywacke and
metaconglomerate Qurna is
located near Thebes. It was an active...
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Precambrian era. The
rocks are a
resistant metamorphized schist, gneisses,
metagraywackes, and metaconglomerates. The
Falls themselves formed during the Last...
- quartz-garnet-muscovite
phyllite and schist,
which occur within the
metagraywackes and metaconglomerates.
Adjacent to and
south of its summit, thin, southward-dipping...
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contains diverse lithologies, but it is
primarily composed of
mylonitic metagraywacke, schist, amphibolite, and
gneiss that
underwent metamorphism 350–360...
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Formation rocks are prin****lly olive-gray to green, blue-quartz
pebble metagraywacke and
quartzite of
Ordovician and
older age. Everett's
lower slopes are...
- side. The type area of
Franciscan rocks in San
Francisco consists of
metagraywackes, gray
claystone and shale, thin
bedded ribbon chert with
abundant radiolarians...
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Franciscan Complex. This unit is made up of sandstones, shales, cherts,
metagraywackes, melanges, as well as
mafic volcanics, and is
mostly metamorphosed to...
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bedrock is metamorphic,
composed of
rocks like schist, phyllite, and
metagraywacke.
Flora and
fauna on the
mountain are
consistent with
those found throughout...
