Trailcut exposure of soft, clayey weathered anorthosite. Anorthosite is made mostly of calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar which weathers rather rapidly to clay minerals when exposed to weathering elements on the earth's surface. Dating of unweathered samples of anorthosite from the San Gabriel Mountains shows that the anorthosite is 1.2 billion years old.
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