Experimental quenched magma
by Thomas P. Ferrand, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
A millimetric piece of Balmuccia peridotite was melted and quenched in the laboratory. The SEM picture shows a biphasic glass: metal oxides in the dense (white) spheres and a lighter silicate phase. Around the spheres a myriad of (sub)micrometric crystals formed. The larger ones reach about 1 micron.
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- Exact location (2.3462 E, 48.8429 N)
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Software: INCA
Taken in
2016
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Thomas P. Ferrand (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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