GSA Today
Volume 30, Issue 12

Typical coarse-grained to pegmatitic, orthopyroxene-bearing
anorthosite (leuconorite) from the 1765–1630 Ma Mealy Mountains Intrusive Suite (Labrador,
Canada). This Mesoproterozoic anorthosite massif intrudes the Mealy Mountains Terrane and is
one of several classic intrusive complexes in the Grenville Province of eastern North America.
The hammer is ~40 cm long. Photo courtesy of Grant Bybee, Univ. of the Witwatersrand.
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