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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 30, 2014
Caption: The Liberty Pit Exhibit (across parking lot from marker): Breccia
Additional Description: Breccia is a relatively uncommon type of rock consisting of many angular fragments of other rocks. The fragments are mostly gravel-sized pieces of limestone, shale, and their altered products. This Breccia was probably formed by the explosive release of copper-bearing and/or gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids from the quartz monzonite magma into the limestone and shale of the district. You can see many small specks of brass-colored pyrite (also known as “fool's gold”) throughout the Breccia.
Submitted: December 27, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p458482
File Size: 5.721 Megabytes

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