Blue- and green-spotted "K2 gneiss" from the Goldberggruppe, Austria

Autor(en)
Julian Portenkirchner, Eugen Libowitzky
Abstrakt

"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(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Publikationsdatum
2023
ÖFOS 2012
105116 Mineralogie, 105113 Kristallographie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5fddce60-e4e2-4584-b050-6f9a24f5b8c6