GRD0295S0
CIRCE 93-F
Serpentinite
Unknown
None
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1
Ritter 154 › Cabinet 34 › Drawer B
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Very small piece and billet. Abundant blue veins and small patches of chrysotile and pyroxene in fine-grained, green matrix.
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CIRCE
Indian Ocean
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N/A
Olivine crystals separated and surrounded by serpentine. Opaques are concentrated along a fracture.
2.5
plane
Olivine crystals separated and surrounded by serpentine. Opaques are concentrated along a fracture.
2.5
crossed
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scan
crossed
GRD0295T0: Abundant orthopyroxene crystals (~60%), some opx can be quite large, small olivine crystals (~15%) surrounded by serpentinite (some stained brown) (~25%); fractures are filled with fine-grained opaque crystals (C. Eichler)
N/A
Fisher_GSABulletin_1971
Fisher, R.L., Sclater, J.G., McKenzie, D.P., 1971, Evolution of the Central Indian Ridge, Western Indian Ocean: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 82, no. 3, p. 553-562.