Slate, Geology 1501

Type Metamorphic Rock Texture Foliated; Very fine-grained Composition Chlorite, Plagioclase, Quartz Index Minerals Color Bluish-gray Miscellaneous Foliation surface is dull and planar; Slaty Cleavage Metamorphic Type Regional Metamorphic Grade Low Grade (Low P – Low T) Parent Rock Shale or Mudstone Metamorphic Environment Low grade regional metamorphism along a convergent plate boundary

Tectonic significance of the late-Ediacaran syn-orogenic basin in the easternmost portion of the Paraguay Belt, Tocantins Province, central Brazil - ScienceDirect

Vein-plus-wall rock melting model for the origin of Early Paleozoic alkali diabases in the South Qinling Belt, Central China - ScienceDirect

Geology and Lithostratigraphy of the Arabian–Nubian Shield

Full article: Application of audio-frequency magnetotelluric data to cover characterisation – validation against borehole petrophysics in the East Tennant region, Northern Australia

Boxed Rock & Mineral Sets

Antigorite: Mineral information, data and localities.

Pyroclastic deposition in the Cretaceous Shahezi Formation (Well SK‐2) Songliao Basin, China: Implications for tectonics and volcanism - Fu - 2022 - Geological Journal - Wiley Online Library

Slate, Geology 1501

Tremolite: Mineral information, data and localities.

New rhynchonellid and spire-bearing brachiopods from the Carboniferous of Mexico. Paleogeographical significance of the Oaxacan brachiopod fauna through the Serpukhovian–Moscovian