Conway Granite Sample

Object/Artifact

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Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Conway Granite Sample

Entry/Object ID

MWM2017.0007.0001

Description

Small hand-sampled piece of Conway Granite. Conway Granite is made up of the following minerals: quartz (smoky gray), potassium feldspar (pink), plagioclase (white), and biotite (shiny black). Sample is about 180 million years old. Collected by two well-trained geology students for the 2014 "Beyond Granite" exhibition at MWM. Part of a complete (or at least comprehensive) hand-sample collection of all the rocks of the White Mountains.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2017.0007

Source or Donor

Sarah Garlick/ Museum of the White Mountains

Acquisition Method

Produced by Staff

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Rocks

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Granite

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Roughly 3.75 x 3.5 inches.

General Notes

Note

Status Date: 2020-07-07 Scan ID#: WM201800672