R-520 Dunite
Item
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Title
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R-520 Dunite
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Description
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Megascopic: A light green granular rock composed almost entirely of glassy olivine with small black grains of chromite and a few large flakes of pale mica.
Microscopic: A mosaically-textured aggregate of anhedral olivine. Chromite occurs in scattered subhedra. Accessories that appear in some sections are chlorite, phlogopite, brucite and fibrous amphibole
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Creator
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Claire Kojaian
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Mediator
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Tamara Carley
carleyt@lafayette.edu
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Rights Holder
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Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geoscience
