GEORGIA PE-PIPER

FIELD PHOTOS OF REPRESENTATIVE OUTCROPS AT WASSON BLUFF, NOVA SCOTIA


Talus breccia of basalt clasts in a matrix of red sandstone: note the vug in the red sandstone matrix which is filled with zeolites (chabazite) and rimmed by a fine-grained mixture of quartz and heulandite.
Complex fill of joint in a basalt with the following order of formation: 
  • phase 1: red mudstone deposition; 
  • phase 2: zeolite precipitation; 
  • phase 3: sandstone deposition (see clast); 
  • phase 4: zeolite precipitation; 
  • phase 5: deposition of central sandstone

 

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