Sparagmite

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Sparagmite (from the Latin sparagma, meaning "fragment") is an arkosic sandstone, greywacke and conglomerate set of beds so named by Jens Esmark in 1829. [1] Deposited in what is now Scandinavia during the Neoproterozoic Era to early Cambrian time, [2] the sparagmite nappes were transported up to several hundred kilometers during the Caledonian collision. Sparagmite is characterized by high feldspar percentages of microcline. [3] [4]

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