Sanddal mafic-ultramafic complex (SMUK), NE Greenland Eclogite Province

Field Photographs

by Jane A. Gilotti & Synnove Elvevold, 1995

JAG95:4-31. View of SMUK from the south looking north JAG95:6-29. Gabbro to eclogite/amphibolite transition (Area 1)
   
JAG95:6-34 Synnove on gabbro; light patches are undeformed, massive, coronitic w/ preserved igneous textures (Area 1) JAG95:6-35 Synnove on another patch of gabbro with large felsic veins (Area 1)
   
SE95:15-11. Pods of gabbro cut by felsic veins; gabbro darker near veins (Area 1) JAG95:6-25. Synnove walkinng up between rat's tail of Area 1 on right and Area 3 on left
   
JAG95:7-0. "The Mess" xenolith of fractured gabbro in UM rock or (?) (Area 3) JAG95:15-20. Close-up of xenolith in "The Mess" (Area 3)
   
JAG95:6-21. UM lithologies cut by veins; lighter rock is less deformed and retrogressed (Area 4) JAG95:6-24. Closeup of veins and pods below Synnove in JAG95:6-21 (Area 4)
   
JAG95:6-18. More conventional Grt-Cpx rock is light green, amphib. darker; veins-partial melt(?) (Area 6) JAG95:6-20. Close-up of Grt-Cpx rock, amphibolite and leucosome
   
JAG95:7-1. Area 7 (Layered part of gabbro 2) JAG95:7-4. Closer view of Area 7; note flame-like contact on left.
   
JAG95:15-6. Close-up of flame contact of Area 7; patches of green Cpx in amphibolite areas JAG9515-2. Patch in felsic part of Area 7 is dominated by Grt + Cpx
   
JAG95:15-22. Near 15-2 in felsic part of Area 7; heterogeneous with some amphibolitized, some not JAG95:15-15. Overview of "cigar-rock" pod
   
SE95:15-3. Opx brown cigars with talc rims; talc pseudomorphs in lower right JAG95:6-25. Oblique aerial view of SMUK