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 Cohen House and Allen Center

 

Cohen House

cohen house sundial granite

 

Here is granite from the Cohen House sundial. This granite has unusual biotite inclusions in some of the large quartz grains.

K-feldspar - 50%, subhedral crystals ~2 cm
quartz - 20%, subhedral ~0.5 cm
plagioclase - 15%, subhedral ~0.5 cm
biotite - 15%, subhedral ~0.5 cm


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Academic Quad-East
Academic Quad-West
Baker Institute, Herring Hall, Shepherd and RMC
Cohen House and Allen Center
Engineering Quad
Hamman Hall, Herman Brown, and Mudd
President's House
Residential Colleges
Science Buildings
Main Page


Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, Houston.