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Banded iron formation
Banded iron formation
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Adamellite
Adamellite
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Banded iron formation are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age
Western Australia, Minnesota
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
From its formation process
Sedimentary Rocks
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
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Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
 
Adamellite is a coarse-grained porphyritic igneous rock, a variety of Monzogranite and dominated by phenocrysts of orthoclase in a granular groundmass of perthite, plagioclase and quartz
Italy
Unknown
From German adamellit and from Monte Adamello, a mountain in Italy, its locality
Igneous Rocks
Durable Rock, Hard Rock
Plutonic
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock