Figure 5A. The layer in the center has needles of the black mineral hornblende which grew in a white rock composed of the mineral plagioclase. Neighboring layers are dominated by these same two minerals, but in different proportions, giving a striped or layered appearance. Rocks of this composition were probably volcanic rocks before the metamorphism.

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