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Hurungwe Gneiss

Grid Ref (WGS84 Lat/Long in decimal degrees)

-16.542640, 29.546520
Location: 
Roadside - Karoi to Makuti Road
Description: 

The Hurungwe Gneiss,ZMB13/8B, collected on the Karoi-Chirundu road is a biotite garnet granitic gneiss, containing quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, garnet. Biotite schlieren 2-4 mm wide help to define a gneissic foliation in the rock. The zircons have yielded ages of 2020.7 ± 6.6 Ma, which is regarded as the age of the intrusion (Master et al., 2015). No inherited zircons were found in this sample. 

Stop 1 on attached field guide

Permission: 
N/A
Author Credit: 
Sharad Master
Contributed: 
23/11/2015
Updated: 
23/11/2015
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