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

Uploaded: 3 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 21 May 2020

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The slide is 27x46 mm. A thin section of Castle Danger basalt featuring amygdules of clinochlore and the zeolite mineral laumontite. Click here to explore this slide in crossed polars: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/oryPfmHyMDsKuvAt Click here to explore the hand sample from which this section was made: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/PtqNQTtsr78aAecH Click here to explore individual amygdules: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/fkPldtPJDXdoQ4iK Click here for a video of one amygdule rotating in plane polars: https://youtu.be/QrHQ2WD_o7M Click here for a video of one amygdule rotating in crossed polars: https://youtu.be/DJXD4HFyD_g