GRD001ZS0

I-74

Rhyolite

Cenozoic › Neogene › Miocene
5.3 - 23.0

1

Ritter 154 › Cabinet 15 › Drawer F

Heavy resorption features

Groundmass is glassy. Feldspars in hand sample.

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Old Dad Mtns

California
Old Dad Mtns, Amboy
Latitude: 34.7°
Longitude: -115.8°

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Sanidine with brown glass inclusions and highly resorbed biotite with resorbed cpx rim.

2.5

plane

Resorbed sanidine and biotite

2.5

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD001ZT0: Sanidine (resorbed, some skeletal, some with mafic glass inclusions), plagioclase (often skeletal), biotite (smaller xtals are euhedral), occasional clinopyroxene (resorbed), orthopyroxene (resorbed), and opaques (subhedral), biotite with cpx rims. (C. Eichler)

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