By: magic-gigapans
Image: Robin Rohrback, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 8 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 21 May 2020

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The slide is 27x46 mm. Pseudotachylyte from the Asbestos Mountain fault in Southern California, near Palm Desert. Sample courtesy of Christie Rowe, McGill University. To explore this thin section in plane polarized light, click here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/s5JWOE0bo4aj6lyZ To explore a hand sample of this pseudotachylyte, click here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/LiZLjOL9v1Ypi7yg