GRD001KS0

I-58

Welded Ignimbrite

Cenozoic › Neogene › Miocene
5.3 - 23.0

1

Ritter 154 › Cabinet 15 › Drawer L

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Original description: Rhyolite.

Age from Glazner et all 1986

Marble Mtns

California
Marble Mtns, 5 mi E of Amboy
Latitude: 34.56°
Longitude: -115.66°

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Large sanidine crystal in brownish matrix.

2.5

plane

Concentric zonation and blue dispersion in sanidine.

2.5

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD001KT0: Sanidine (polysynthetic twinning, some skeletal), plagioclase (albite), quartz, amphibole, orthopyroxene, hematite bleb (C. Eichler)

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