IEAX-1E Hand Sample

Title: IEAX-1E Hand Sample
Description: This sample is mostly dark gray to black ground mass, with most faces being smooth, and one face being covered in vesicles. There are small pockets of vesicles elsewhere in the sample as well. There are dark gray inclusions which are mostly spherical with uniform dark gray color, some cleavage faces, with a fairly smooth transition into the groundmass. Some of the inclusions extrude from the rest of the groundmass however. Most inclusions are 1-2.5 cm in diameter, with the largest being 3 cm. There are some small phenocrysts found, with the largest seen being 5 mm in length. These are intergrown with the groundmass. There are some vesiculated portions of the ground mass, and the vesicles showing a lot of glassy texture. There is one strange inclusion where it looks like a dark gray inclusion in disequilibrium with the groundmass, where vesicles are present around the inclusion. The other inclusions do not have vesicles surrounding them.

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