Some Devonian Rocks
Indian Guide Kimberlite Field - Early Devonian kimberlite from the Iron Mountain
Kimberlite District, Wyoming, USA.
Salisbury Pluton - monzogranite (adamellite) (Early Devonian, 411 Ma)
from near Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
Kaub Formation, Hunsrück Slate Group - fossiliferous slate with pyritized Furcaster
paleozoicus ophiuroid (lower Emsian Stage, upper Lower Devonian) in the
Budenbach area, Germany.
Columbus Limestone - fossiliferous packstone with brachiopods (Eifelian
Stage, lower Middle Devonian) from near Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Alden Pyrite Bed, Ledyard Shale Member, Ludlowville
Formation - fossiliferous
pyrite concretions (Middle Devonian) from western New York State, USA.
Prairie Evaporite Formation - Middle Devonian blue halite from the Potash
Saskatchewan-Lanigan Mine, Canada.
Silica Formation - pyritized brachiopod shell pavement on
fossiliferous shale (Middle Devonian) at Sylvania, Ohio, USA.
Barre Granite, New Hampshire Plutonic Suite - granodiorite (Frasnian Stage, early Late Devonian,
~380 Ma) from the Barre Granite Quarry District, Vermont, USA.
Rubtsovsk Copper-Zinc-Lead Deposit - copper & cuprite from a volcanogenic massive
sulfide deposit in the Kamenevsk Group (upper Frasnian Stage, ~mid-Upper
Devonian) at Poteryaevskoe Mine, Siberia, Russia.
Ohio Shale - marcasite concretion (left) from the Huron Shale Member (upper
Frasnian Stage or lower Famennian Stage, mid-Upper Devonian) at Glen Echo
Ravine, Columbus, Ohio, USA. At right is a pyrite concretion from the
Ohio Shale in Ross County, Ohio, USA.
Ohio Shale - cone-in-cone limestone interbed from a black shale succession
(Frasnian Stage-Famennian Stage, Upper Devonian) in central Ohio, USA.
Perrysburg Formation, South Wales Member - fossiliferous quartzose siltstone with Plumalina
frond fossil (Upper Devonian) from Almond Lake railroad cut, New York State,
USA.
Khibina Massif - pegmatitic peralkaline eudialytic nepheline syenite
(a.k.a. agpaite) (left) & pegmatitic peralkaline astrophyllitic
nepheline syenite (right) from the Late Devonian (~362-365 Ma) of the Kola
Peninsula, Russia.
Münchberg (Muenchberg) Gneiss Massif - eclogite (metamorphosed in the late Late Devonian,
~365 Ma) from Weissenstein (Weißenstein), Bavaria, Germany.