GRD01YXS0

RAMA7-Dr6-3

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. Brown matrix between cream-colored glomerocrysts of plagioclase. 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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Plagioclase glomerocryst and euhedral opaque

2.5

plane

Plagioclase glomerocryst

2.5

crossed

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scan

crossed

GRD01YXT0: Small glomerocrysts of plagioclase (many crystals display oscillatory zonation, inclusion-rich), small euhedral blocky and acicular opaque oxides, small pyroxene crystals, altered (?) green, massive groundmass (C. Eichler)

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