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Day 352 : An iron meteorite, locality unknown. Keele collection.

Day 351 : This is part of the Clovis, New Mexico chondritic meteorite that was found in March 1963. Keele collection.

Day 350 : This is a carbonaceous chondrite, part of the Allende Meteorite that landed near Pueblito de Allende, Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico on February 8, 1969. The calcium-aluminium-iron chondrules are estimated to be 4.567 billion years old, the oldest known matter, predating the Earth by 30 million years. Keele collection.

Day 349 : A greisenised and tourmalinised psammitic hornfels from the Carpalla Quarry, Foxhole, Cornwall, England. Keele collection.

Day 348 : A granite greisen from Cligga Head, Cornwall, England. Keele collection.

Day 347 : A serpentine-carbonate skarn at metagabbro contact, Cae’r Sais, near Trearddur, Anglesey, Wales. Keele collection.

Day 346 : A garnet-staurolite-mica schist from between Le Conquet and Pt. St. Mathieu, Brittany, France. Keele collection.

Day 345 : A garnet mica schist (Glen Sluan Schist) from near Clachan, at the northeast end of Loch Fyne, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Keele collection.

Day 344 : The Leven Schist, a garnet-biotite-muscovite schist from the River Roy Bridge, Roybridge, Highland Region, Scotland. Keele collection.

Day 343 : A Sillimanite (as fibrolite) paragneiss from Åkland, near Tvedestrand, Norway. Keele collection.