By: magic-gigapans
Image: Robin Rohrback, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 3 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 18 May 2020

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Pyroxene phenocrysts isolated from a porphyritic vesicular basalt collected on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius. Three phenocrysts analyzed with NOVA's SEM and XRD came up augite. Click here to explore a gigapan of the rock these were plucked from: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/7DIlgxCT5hv4WOvJ Sample contributed by Sarah Yun.