l. Basalt dike intruding Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite, with Great Unconformity at the top of the ouitcrop
2. Knob Lick amphibole-granite ring pluton intruding banded rhyolite
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1 and 2: Key Field Relationships
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l. Basalt dike intruding Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite, with Great Unconformity at the top of the ouitcrop |
2. Knob Lick amphibole-granite ring pluton intruding banded rhyolite |
Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite
3. Intrusive (?) contact within the Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite (note right-dipping banfing in left unit, apparent chilled margin around the scale, and non-banded unit to right). Hwy 67 S of Frederickton. 1. |
4. Intrusive (?) contact within the Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite (note steeply dipping pink unit; contacts are also sheared - could this be an altered mylonite?)
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5. Cambrian alluvial fan deposit, Hwy 72.
6-9. Tiemann's Shut-Ins. Tonalitic enclaves in Silvermines ring pluton, intruded by pink aplite dikes
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10-13.Pilot Knob
10.The Lower Cut
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11. The Upper Cut
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12.Ashfall imprints (?) in Precambrian Banded Iron Formation, Pilot Knob
13.Sunset, Pilot Knob
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