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  1. A xenolith embedded in a Cretaceous lamprophyre dyke. This is a pyroxenite: almost all of the crystals are orthopyroxene or clinopyroxene. There is some late hydrous alteration at grain boundaries. A whole thin section scan in plane-polarized light.

    #ThinSectionThursday #Xenolith #Pyroxenite #Lamprophyre

  2. A xenolith embedded in a Cretaceous lamprophyre dyke. This is a pyroxenite: almost all of the crystals are orthopyroxene or clinopyroxene. There is some late hydrous alteration at grain boundaries. A whole thin section scan in plane-polarized light.

  3. A xenolith embedded in a Cretaceous lamprophyre dyke. This is a pyroxenite: almost all of the crystals are orthopyroxene or clinopyroxene. There is some late hydrous alteration at grain boundaries. A whole thin section scan in plane-polarized light.

    #ThinSectionThursday #Xenolith #Pyroxenite #Lamprophyre

  4. A xenolith embedded in a Cretaceous lamprophyre dyke. This is a pyroxenite: almost all of the crystals are orthopyroxene or clinopyroxene. There is some late hydrous alteration at grain boundaries. A whole thin section scan in plane-polarized light.

    #ThinSectionThursday #Xenolith #Pyroxenite #Lamprophyre

  5. A xenolith embedded in a Cretaceous lamprophyre dyke. This is a pyroxenite: almost all of the crystals are orthopyroxene or clinopyroxene. There is some late hydrous alteration at grain boundaries. A whole thin section scan in plane-polarized light.

    #ThinSectionThursday #Xenolith #Pyroxenite #Lamprophyre