"Ward's Phenomena"

Lustrous, black 'hard coal'.

Cemented glacial gravel.

Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.

Dark gray, with hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral.

Fine to medium-grained with biotite.

Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.

Foliated biotite, coarse, silvery gray with quartz-feldspar bands.

Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.

Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.

Abundant small black phenocrysts in a gray to brown matrix.

Light gray, fine small clasts.

Buff, coarse, crystalline “Austin Marble” with shell casts and molds.

Dense and massive.

Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.

Chlorite-bearing.

Glossy green dunite (olivine) inclusion in non-genetically related basalt. Average size: 3" x 4".