Blue- and green-spotted "K2 gneiss" from the Goldberggruppe, Austria
- Author(s)
- Julian Portenkirchner, Eugen Libowitzky
- Abstract
"K2 gneiss" or "K2 granite" is a grey to white (meta)granite with cm-sized round blue (and sometimes green) spots stained by fine-grained azurite (and sometimes malachite). Due to its attractive appearance it has been carved to various stone artefacts and traded world-wide. Although this rock-type has been known exclusively from the slopes of the K2 in the Himalaya Mountains (hence the name), a second occurrence has been found in the Goldberggruppe in Austria some two years ago.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
- Publication date
- 2023
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105116 Mineralogy, 105113 Crystallography
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5fddce60-e4e2-4584-b050-6f9a24f5b8c6