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Figure 5

From: Delineating Areas of Past Environmental Degradation near Smelters using Rock Coatings: A Case Study at Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec

Figure 5

Examples of partly coated (A,B) and uncoated (C–F) bedrock surfaces in the Rouyn-Noranda study area: (A) glacially smoothed basaltic and andesitic pillow lavas of the Rouyn-Pelletier formation (Blake River Group); (B) rhyolite breccia consisting of angular fragments set in a hyaloclastite matrix (Blake River Group); (C) sediments of the Granada Formation (Timiskaming Group); (D) mafic and intermediate units of the Rouyn-Pelletier formation (Blake River Group) and a younger gabbro intrusion; (E) tonalite of the D’Alembert pluton; (F) tonalite of the Powell pluton. Rock hammer and daypack for scale. Site locations are given in Fig. 2.

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