GRD01YWS0

RAMA7-Dr6-2

Basalt

Mesozoic › Cretaceous › Late Cretaceous
65.5 - 99.6

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Ritter 154 › Cabinet 37 › Drawer A

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Dense extrusive rock with billet. Glomerocrysts of dark-colored 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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Glomerocryst of plagioclase

2.5

plane

Glomerocryst of plagioclase. Note the rim overgorwths.

2.5

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD01YWT0: 80% large plagioclase (both as individual crystals and glomerocrysts; albite twinning), 5% olivine, 5% pyroxene, 5% opaque oxides; 5% altered green mica (?) (C. Eichler)

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