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Day 14: August 2, Val Malenco, Italy

We made the drive around the Bergell intrusion to Val de Malenco, Italy to check out the post-orogenic granitoids, serpentinites and an exhumed crust mantle boundary


View from Val Malenco, looking northwest towards Bergell Complex. Sure is ugly in the Alps!


The crew, identifying rocks on command


A boulder showing the boundaries of two granitic dykes (white) intruding tonallite (grey) country rock that makes up the majority of the Bergell intrusion


Fabric in a piece of cut serpentinite, near a quarry in Chiesa di Valmalenco


A serpentine quarry near Chiesa di Valmalenco

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