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Title Garnets in Schist
Date October 1959
Description Photograph of a schist specimen featuring garnets at the Museum of North Carolina Minerals, located near mile post 331 in section 2L of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Museum of North Carolina Minerals
Parkway Milepost: 331.0
Latitude: 35.853343
Longitude: -82.051997
Creator Individual Garrett T. Smathers
Tags Exhibitions
Geology
Gillespie Gap (N.C.)
Mitchell County (N.C.)
Museum of North Carolina Minerals (N.C.)
Museums
Photographs
Tourism
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway