GRD00GDS0

I-674

Ignimbrite

Cenozoic › Paleogene › Eocene › Late Eocene › Priabonian
33.9 - 37.2

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Ritter 154 › Cabinet 15 › Drawer K

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Wall Mtn tuff. Also known as Castle Rock rhyolite. Rhyolite (San-Pla-Bi-Mt-Q) tuff.

36.7 Ma

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Colorado
Castle Rock
Latitude: 39.4°
Longitude: -104.8°

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Sanidine crystals

5.0

plane

Sanidine with polysynthetic twinning and faint zonation

5.0

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD00GDT0: Sanidine (polysynthetic twinning, obvious zonation), opaques, small biotite phenocrysts in fine grained matrix. (C. Eichler)

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