A pretty cool outcrop I saw on my pre-GSA structural geology field trip to the Superior Craton:
Can you see what caught my eye here?
It’s a nice series of cross-cutting relationships. A series of sedimentary rocks were sheared out and metamorphosed, transforming into schists with internal boudins, and then they were cross-cut by first a felsic dike, and then a mafic dike, as seen in this modified version of the same photo:
Outcrops like this are great for teaching the relative timing of geologic events.
Here’s a close up of some of the itty-bitty boudins in the schist adjacent to the margin of the felsic dike:
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