Mesoproterozoic

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Carbon-containing sandstones with pyrite phenocrysts. Angarskaya series, upper pack. Mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Carbon-containing phyllite schists with carbonate (anchorite, calcite). Angarskaya series, upper pack. Mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Carbon-containing phyllite schists with pyrite lenses. Angarskaya series, upper pack. Mesoproterozoic. 

Rock type: 
Age: 
1200 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Calcareous metamorphosed sandstones. Iligirskaya series. Mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1200 millions years

Russia, Republic of Buryatia, Taksimo. Brownish-lilac and greenish large-pebble conglomerates with interbeds of sandstones. Pebbles and boulders in conglomerates up to 80 centimeters in size. Formed by sandstones, shales, granites and various effusive rocks. Sandy cement is metamorphosed to a saussurite-sericite aggregate, with feldspars, quartz, epidote and iron hydroxides. The interlayers of sandstones are green, greenish-gray, polymictic and quartz. Polymictic sandstones are formed by quartz, plagioclase and potassium feldspar. Mukhtunnaya series. Thickness 1300 meters.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, mountain Cheget. Donguzorunskiy metamorphic complex. Mica gneisses, mica schists with andalusite, garnet. Thickness - 1280 meters. Proterozoic, mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, mountain Cheget. Donguzorunskiy metamorphic complex. Mica gneisses, mica schists with andalusite, garnet. Thickness - 1280 meters. Proterozoic, mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Adyrsu River Gorge. Gondarayskiy metamorphic complex, verkhnebalkarsky metamorphic subcomplex. Muscovite, biotite, feldspathic, hornblende gneisses; chlorite-hornblende, quartz-hornblende, quartz-tremolite schists; migmatitized gneiss and schists, migmatitis. Sometimes quartzite. Fine-grained, medium-grained. Proterozoic, mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Adyrsu River Gorge. Gondarayskiy metamorphic complex, verkhnebalkarsky metamorphic subcomplex. Muscovite, biotite, feldspathic, hornblende gneisses; chlorite-hornblende, quartz-hornblende, quartz-tremolite schists; migmatitized gneiss and schists, migmatitis. Sometimes quartzite. Fine-grained, medium-grained. Proterozoic, mesoproterozoic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Adyrsu River Gorge. Gondarayskiy metamorphic complex, verkhnebalkarsky metamorphic subcomplex. Muscovite, biotite, feldspathic, hornblende gneisses; chlorite-hornblende, quartz-hornblende, quartz-tremolite schists; migmatitized gneiss and schists, migmatitis. Sometimes quartzite. Fine-grained, medium-grained. Proterozoic, mesoproterozoic.