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Photograph of Kowaliga Gneiss from Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Close photograph of the Kowaliga Gneiss, with a finger ring for scale. Annotations show the foliated nature of the planar minerals biotite, muscovite, and quartz, draped around the polygonal crystals of microcline. The microcline crystals are elongate and slightly smaller than the finger ring.

Notations show direction of foliation (black lines) of biotite (Bt), muscovite (Ms), and quartz (Qtz) drapedaround microcline (Mc) crystals. Finger ring for scale.

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NPS photograph by Rebecca Port, notations by Michael Barthelmes.

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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Code: HOBE

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Latitude: 32.9766998291016, Longitude: -85.7341003417969

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