R-520 Dunite (Olivine Peridotite)

Title: R-520 Dunite (Olivine Peridotite)
Description: MEGASCOPIC: A light green granular rock composed almost etirely 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. Accesories that appear in some sections are chlorite, phlogopite, brucite and a fibrous amphibole
Source: Wards Collection of North American Rocks
Contributor: Hana Isihara
Identifier: R520
Mediator: Tamara Carley (carleyt@lafayette.edu)
Rights Holder: Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

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