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Rock
Marble (Man Si Khun area, Putao)
MM_Rock_10_2026
Rock
Geological Survey in Putao township, Kachin state
Milky white color, medium to coarse grained, hard and compact metamorphosed limestone (marble?)
542 - 2500 ~
Million Years
Precambrian
Mogok series
Manual
Mineral Database
Geological Survey in Putao township, Kachin state
Database
359.2 ~ 762
GPS
Plain
near Man Si Khun village, Putao township, Kachin state
Putao township, Kachin state
Northern West and Northern mountain of Putao township, Kachin state is mogok series, Precambrian age of Schist, Gneiss, Quartzite, Calc-silicate and locality lenses of marble. They are welly hard and compact, so this area has ridges and valley. This mountain ranges which composed with mogok series rocks are become by plate tectonic processes, Orogeny. Along the major faults and fractures which caused by tectonism is mesozoic age of granite and ultrabasic rocks. South East and East of the study area is Putao plain. Deposition of pebble and cobble size Putao gravel bed, this area is the inter mountain basin in past.
Myanmar (Burma)
Kachin state
Putao township
DGSE Field Party (Kyaw Kyaw Ohn [Director] et al)
2021-06-20 ~ 2021-08-15
Database
Database
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Marble_MM_Rock_10_2026
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2025-11-12