Countertop Petrology and Geochemistry Database

James Madison University

About this Project

 

 

Bethel Ash (aka Bethel White)
"Hand Sample" Image (.jpg)

Modal abundance / mineral assemblage / IUGS name (.xls)

Major and trace element geochemistry (.xls)

Petrographic Images:
(thin section glass is 27mm x 46mm; epoxy contains quartz grains on edges of section)

Full slide in unpolarized light (.jpg)
Full slide under crossed polarizers (.jpg)
Electron microprobe analyses of feldspar compositions (.xls)
Map of feldspar compositional analyses (.jpg)

(This is a false-color BSE image of feldspars- color enhances appearance of compositional zoning)
Outside links to localities and other information about this countertop:

(JMU does not maintain these sites and cannot vouch for the accuracy of claims on these sites)

AKA Bethel White

Stoneply website

Stonev website

 
















 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Copyright 2012 by Elizabeth Johnson, Sarah O'Reilly, Eric Pyle.
Last modified June 2013