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

Uploaded: 4 May 2020
Last Updated: 28 May 2020

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This is a piece of the Ghaub Formation of Namibia, a carbonate diamictite with iceberg-rafted debris attributed to the Neoproterozoic "Snowball Earth" glaciation. A prominent dropstone is located in the middle of this face. Sample measures 10 cm "tall" (stratigraphic thickness) by 12 cm wide. Contributed by Dr. Jay Kaufman of the University of Maryland, College Park.