Photomicrograph of an Olivine Basalt slide section, cross polarized lighting, Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye UK


Typical porphyritic Olivine baslat. Phenocrysts of fresh Olivine and Titanaugite set in a groundmass of similar minerals plus magnetite.


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Keywords: augite, basalt, chemistry, cross, cuillin, geology, hills, igneous, isle, lighting, magnetite, microscope, mineralogy, olivine, petrology, photomicrograph, plagioclase, polarized, section, skye, slide, titan, uk