GRD000VS0

I-32

Andesite

Cenozoic › Neogene › Miocene
5.3 - 23.0

1

Ritter 154 › Cabinet 16 › Drawer A

resorption

Porphyritic. White sanidine in dark grey matrix.

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Van Winkel Mtns

California
Van Winkel Mtns, 30 mi NE of Amboy
Latitude: 34.99°
Longitude: -115.29°

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Resorbed amphibole and subhedral feldspar with small crystal inclusions. Glomerocryst.

2.5

plane

Tartan twinning in feldspar. Glomerocryst.

2.5

crossed

Broken slide

scan

crossed

GRD000VT0: (broken slide) Sanidine (resorption, concentric oscillatory zonation, polysynthetic twinning), plagioclase, subhedral resorbed amphibole, biotite, matrix of finer crystals. (C. Eichler)

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