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Figure 2. A typical exposure of the Shatter Zone showing blocks of layered Bar Harbor rocks floating in a soup of light-colored granite. Many blocks are angular but some are rounded, suggesting that they had begun to melt and become assimilated by the granite magma.


Last updated on October 29, 2010