GRD00GSS0 - Geological Teaching Collection at Scripps

Record #609 of 5779
GRD00GRS0 GRD00GTS0

IGSN:

GRD00GSS0

Sample ID:

I-689

Sample Type:

Basalt

Sample Age:

Cenozoic › Paleogene › Eocene
33.9 - 55.8

Number TS:

Storage:

Camp Elliott

Modifiers:

Notes:

Vesicular aphyric basalt. Vesicles lined with zeolite?; Thin section in Wards Micro Slides box in RH 154.

Ancillary Data Notes:

Series:

Location:

Colorado
Tenderfoot Mtn, Chaffee County
Latitude: 38.5°
Longitude: -106.9°

Photos:

N/A

Micrographs:

Notes:

Sanidine with resorption, rim overgrowth, crystal inclusions. Zeolite.

Mag:

2.5

Polarized:

plane

Notes:

Sanidine with blue dispersion and concentric zonation. Green zeolite.

Mag:

2.5

Polarized:

crossed

Notes:

Mag:

scan

Polarized:

crossed

Thin Sections:

GRD00GST0: Sanidine with resorption, rim overgrowth, and concentric zonation. Spherulites. Zeolite. (C. Eichler)

Documents:

N/A

References:

N/A

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