tourmaline

Rock type: 
Age: 
458 millions years

Russia, Subpolar Ural, Kozhim river valley. White, light gray marbled limestones. Include microlayers of quartz-mica composition, the content of quartz grains in them sometimes reaches 30–35%. Under the microscope of the rock, a granoblastic structure with relics of an uneven-grained - blastopsammite and blastoaleurite is found; layered, banded texture and consist of a calcite heterogeneous aggregate (70–99%) with intercalations of quartz grains (up to 25%) and microlayers of carbonaceous-chlorite-sericite, muscovite-chlorite composition.

Rock type: 
Age: 
122 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk Territory, Tordoki-Yani Mountain. Biotite granites containing cordierite. Medium grained, coarse grained. Form batholith. Consist: oligoclase or andesine - 25-60%, K-spar - 10-45%, quartz - 18-32%, biotite - 8-25%. Accesory: apatite, zircon, sphen, monazite, garnet, tourmaline, ortit. Characterized by the presence of cordierite. Low Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
122 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk territory, Sikhote-Alin range, Tordoki-Yani mountain. Biotite granites containing cordierite. Medium grained, coarse grained. Form batholith. Consist: oligoclase or andesine - 25-60%, K-spar - 10-45%, quartz - 18-32%, biotite - 8-25%. Accesory: apatite, zircon, sphen, monazite, garnet, tourmaline, ortit. Characterized by the presence of cordierite. Low Cretaceous.