Question to the #geomasses. Has anyone seen quartz veins that look like this?
This has been previously described as a mineralizated qrtz vein, but for the life of me I have never seen a quartz vein that texturally looked like this. Texturally it looks more like a melt to me, note the incorporated clasts of host rock on the right, and the irregular almost podiform nature of the 'vein' (see second image). However, it only contains quartz and calcite...
#geology #oregeology #petrology