Some Permian Rocks
Quamby Mudstone - tasmanite (= Tasmanites-rich
kerogenite/kerogen shale/oil shale) from Tasmania; probably Sakmarian
Stage, lower Lower Permian.
Larvik Batholith - larvikite (early Early Permian, ~292-298 Ma) from
near Larvik, Norway.
Conjola Formation - stellate glendonite from the Lower Permian at
Dolphin Beach, New South Wales, Australia.
Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt - dunite (Early Permian, 275-285 Ma) from Dun
Mountain, Bryant Range, New Zealand.
Pink Westerly Granite - granite (mid-Early Permian, 279 Ma) from Westerly,
Rhode Island, USA.
Phosphoria Formation - peloidal phosphorite (Roadian Stage to Wordian
Stage, lower Guadalupian Series, mid-Permian) from Simplot Mine, Idaho, USA.
Hamilton Branch Kimberlite - Late Permian kimberlite from near Hamilton Creek,
Elliott County, Kentucky, USA.
Ison Creek Kimberlite - kimberlite (Late Permian, ~257 Ma) from the Ison
Creek valley area, Elliott County, Kentucky, USA.
Illawarra Coal Measures - fossiliferous deltaic clayshale with Glossopteris
fossil leaves from the Upper Permian of Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia.
Castile Formation - faulted rock gypsum (upper Upper Permian) from
State Line outcrop, far-southern New Mexico, USA.
Salado Formation - rock salt/halitite (Ochoan Stage, upper Upper
Permian) from southeastern New Mexico, USA.
Left:
Lower Member, WIPP Storage Level, New Mexico, USA
Right:
McNutt Member, Mississippi Potash East Mine, New Mexico, USA.
Salado Formation - evaporitic polyhalite (Ochoan Stage, upper Upper
Permian) from the the Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico, USA.
Siberian Traps Flood Basalt - native iron in basalt/dolerite from the end-Permian
(251 Ma) at the Putoran Plateau, Siberia, Russia.
Siberian Traps Flood Basalt - sperrylite-magnetite-chalcopyrite from intrusive
gabbrodolerite beneath the Siberian Traps Flood Basalt (end-Permian, 251 Ma) in
the Norilsk Mining District, Siberia, Russia.