Alkalic Olivine Basalt

Title

Alkalic Olivine Basalt

Identifier

HA-21

Description

Hand Sample: Aphanitic light gray vesicular basalt with large olivine crystals. Olivine phenocrysts range in size from single crystals approx. 0.1cm in diameter to clusters of olivine as large as 1cm in diameter. Vesicles throughout the sample are primarily large and also elongate in shape.
Thin Section: Groundmass composed of small sized plagioclase grains, glass, and clinopyroxene. Some small phenocrysts of olivine present throughout the thin section.

Date

Sample collected in January, 1969.

Contributor

Western Minerals

Is Part Of

Volcanic Phenomena Suite - The Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Oahu

Spatial Coverage

Hualaiai - Island of Hawaii

Temporal Coverage

1801

Number of Thin Sections

1