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2003 Alan Whittington.
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Page 1: Saturday, Silvermines to Elephant Rocks (click here for page 2)
1. The Silvermine granite. John, Paula, Jon, Steve, Eric, Peter, Jim, and Geoff
2. The Silvermine granite
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3. Entrance to the Einstein Mine
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4 and 5. The weird tree at Tiemann Shut-Ins
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6 and 7. Aplite dikes cutting mixed granite and intermediate blobs at Tiemann Shut-Ins
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8 and 9. Horns on aplite dikes at Tiemann Shut-Ins
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10. Mafic Dike in Grassy Mountain Rhyolite
11. The Great Unconformity and Mafic Dike
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12. Mafic Dike in Grassy Mountain Rhyolite
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14. Overlapping segments of a thin mafic dike
15. View from Knob Lick over the Butler Hill pluton (low-lying) surrounded by marginal plutons (hills in distance)
16. Paula looking at a hand sample
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17. The Knob Lick Quarry
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18. Rhyolite xenolith in Knob Lick granite
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19. Knob Lick granite intruding rhyolite (note contact)
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20. Epidote mineralization in Knob Lick granite
22. Two facies of the Butler Hill pluton
23. xenoliths in rhyolite
24. Normal fault in red rhyolite
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25. Jim, Eric, Jon and the normal fault
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26. Intrusive (?) contact betwen red and black rhyolite
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27. Or is it faulted?
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28. Rhyolitic breccia near Killarney Lake
29. John and plumose structure
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30. Plumose structure (not an impact site!)
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31. The Battle of Pilot Knob: Septermber 27, 1864; 1.00 to 2.30 p.m.
33. Geoff, Eric, Peter and Paula looking through the tailings pile
34. Graniteville granite
35. Quarry at Graniteville
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36. Graniteville - the World's finest red granite
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37. Elephant Rocks
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38. Elephant Rocks
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39. Elephant Rocks
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40. Elephant Rocks
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41. Elephant Rocks
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42. Elephant Rocks
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43. Elephant Rocks
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45. Elephant Rocks
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46. Elephant Rocks
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47. Elephant Rocks
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