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The Contact-Metamorphic Deposit of Round Valley, California

RANDOLPH W. CHAPMAN

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The Round Valley contact-metamorphic deposit is located in the Tungsten Hills 9 miles west of Bishop, California. It consists of an elliptical-shaped roof pendant of altered sedimentary rocks entirely surrounded by granite. The sediments were originally limestones, argillaceous sandstones, and relatively pure sandstones. As a result of contact-metamorphic action by the granite, however, the sandstones have been changed to hornfels and the limestones to complex lime-silicate rocks and marble. The paragenetic relations are similar to those in certain other contact-metamorphic deposits.

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The Round Valley contact-metamorphic deposit is located in the Tungsten Hills 9 miles west of Bishop, California. It consists of an elliptical-shaped roof pendant of altered sedimentary rocks entirely surrounded by granite. The sediments were originally limestones, argillaceous sandstones, and relatively pure sandstones. As a result of contact-metamorphic action by the granite, however, the sandstones have been changed to hornfels and the limestones to complex lime-silicate rocks and marble. The paragenetic relations are similar to those in certain other contact-metamorphic deposits.

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The Round Valley contact-metamorphic deposit is located in the Tungsten Hills 9 miles west of Bishop, California. It consists of an elliptical-shaped roof pendant of altered sedimentary rocks entirely surrounded by granite. The sediments were originally limestones, argillaceous sandstones, and relatively pure sandstones. As a result of contact-metamorphic action by the granite, however, the sandstones have been changed to hornfels and the limestones to complex lime-silicate rocks and marble. The paragenetic relations are similar to those in certain other contact-metamorphic deposits.

Key concepts: Geology, Metamorphic rock, Hornfels, Geochemistry, Sedimentary rock, Gneiss, Geomorphology, Paleontology

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