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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Geochemical data supporting studies of the Orocopia Schist and related units

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Looking down from a cliff into the sea, a crag of stacked black pillows of volcanic rock rises from the rough surf. Some of the pillows have a greenish tinge.

One schist, two schist, greenschist, blueschist: Metamorphosed volcanic rocks in California

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Close up of Garnet Schist

Garnet Schist
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A soil catena on schist in northwestern California

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Graphite schist from the Roanoke Rapids terrane in southeastern Virginia.

Roanoke Rapids Graphite Schist, VA
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Uranium adsorption on weathered schist - Intercomparison of modeling approaches

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Postcrystalline deformation of the Pelona Schist bordering Leona Valley, southern California

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A summary of Horikoshi's structure of cupriferous pyrite deposits in schist

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Test drilling and aquifer test in the Marburg schist near Mount Airy, Frederick County, Maryland

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Petrology and tectonic history of the Green Bay Schist, Portmore, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica

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The Colebrooke Schist of southwestern Oregon and its relation to the tectonic evolution of the region

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Paleoseismology of the Denali fault system at the Schist Creek site, central Alaska

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Close up of deformed Paleoproterozoic granitic intrusions in biotite schist, Grand Canyon

Strongly deformed Paleoproterozoic granitic intrusions in biotite schist
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Geologic map showing part of the May Creek schist and related rocks, Jackson County, Oregon

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Staurolite weathering out of schist in the along the eastern edge of the Roanoke Rapids terrane in southeastern Virginia.

Staurolite Weathering out of Schist, Roanoke Rapids
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Enrichment of trace elements in garnet amphibolites from a paleo-subduction zone: Catalina Schist, southern California

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Structure, metamorphism, and geochronology of the Cosmos Hills and Ruby Ridge, Brooks Range schist belt, Alaska

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Re-Os, Rb-Sr, and O isotopic systematics of the Archean Kolar schist belt, Karnataka, India

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Relationship of Precambrian quartzite-schist sequence along Coal Creek to Idaho Springs Formation, Front Range, Colorado

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U-Pb age of an older metamorphic group mica schist:  Earliest terrain of the eastern Indian craton

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Early Cretaceous metamorphic age of the South Fork Mountain Schist in the northern Coast Ranges of California

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Climatic impact on isovolumetric weathering of a coarse-grained schist in the northern Piedmont Province of the central Atlantic states

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New evidence for polyphase metamorphism of glaucophane schist and eclogite exotic blocks in the Franciscan Complex, California and Oregon

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Whole-rock and trace-element analyses of some alumina-rich gneiss and schist from the Blue Ridge, North Carolina and Georgia

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The greenstone schist areas of the Menominee and Marquette regions of Michigan, a contribution to the subject of dynamic metamorphism in eruptive rocks

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Sea cliff exposures of metamorphosed carbonate and schist, northern Seward Peninsula: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1983

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The Accotink Schist, Lake Barcroft Metasandstone, and Popes Head Formation— Keys to an understanding of the tectonic evolution of the northern Virginia Piedmont

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Relation of the Wissahickon mica gneiss to the Shenandoah limestone and Octoraro schist of the Doe Run and Avondale region, Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Mantle peridotite in newly discovered far-inland subduction complex, southwest Arizona: Initial report

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Isotopic age of the Nevadan Orogeny and older Plutonic and metamorphic events in the Klamath Mountains, California

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