GRD006MS0

I-247

Rhyolite

Cenozoic › Quaternary › Pleistocene
0.01 - 2.6

1

Ritter 154 › Cabinet 15 › Drawer F

resorption,Porphyritic

Vitrophyric dome. Multiple small samples.

-

Mono Craters

California
SW of Mono Craters
Latitude: 37.9°
Longitude: -119.0°

-

Euhedral and resorbed feldspar crystals. Resorbed crystals have rim overgrowths

2.5

plane

Twinning in euhedral sanidine

2.5

crossed

-

scan

crossed

GRD006MT0: plagioclase (albite and polysynthetic twinning), sanidine (oscillatory zoning)(resorption in larger crystals, some with rim overgrowths), orthopyroxene, biotite, opaques; fine grained basaltic clast (small and large plagioclase crystals, clinopyroxene) (C. Eichler)

N/A

N/A