GRD01YVS0

RAMA7-Dr6-1

Basalt

Mesozoic › Cretaceous › Late Cretaceous
65.5 - 99.6

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Ritter 154 › Cabinet 37 › Drawer A

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Dense, green porphyritic extrusive rock with billet. Glomerocrysts of plagioclase visible. Original label: 8 November, 1980.

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RAMA 7 Dredge 6

Pacific Ocean
Philippine Trench. Original: 10 35.1N, 126 27.7E to 10 34.5N, 126 27.5E. Depth: -7535 to -7235.
Latitude: 10.585°
Longitude: 126.461667°
-7385.0 m a.s.l.

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Glomerocrysts and individual crystals of plagioclase

2.5

plane

Glomerocrysts and individual crystals of plagioclase

2.5

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD01YVT0: Approximately 60% plagioclase (rim overgrowths, albite twinning, oscillatory zoning, mostly glomerocrysts), 15% olivine, 5% opaques, 20% green matrix (C. Eichler)

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