Ishita Das posted an Question
January 29, 2021 • 02:18 am 30 points
  • IIT JAM
  • Geology (GG)

A heavy mineral assemblage in a rock consists of rounded grains of tourmaline, zircon, rutile kyanite and staurolite. the provenance of such assemblage is

A heavy mineral assemblage in a rock consists of rounded grains of tourmaline, zircon, rutile kyanite and staurolite. The provenance of such assemblage is (A) hydrothermal deposit (C )basic igneous rock (B) reworked sedimentary rock (D) acidic igneous rock

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    Saurabh 1 best-answer

    Rounded grains of the minerals usually shows reworking of sediments(or a characteristic of reworked sedimentary rock).So correct answer would be (B). It's given in sam boggs, go through that...

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    Sajan sarthak Best Answer

    REWORKED SEDIMENTARY ROCK sengupta book page no 16

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