Blue Olivine in an unusual basalt
Bernardo Cesare
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Blue Olivine set in a matrix of pyroxene, magnetite and plagioclase in a basalt I collected on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel.
Who may have been throwing this stone a couple millennia ago?
Polarized light photomicrograph.
Crossed polarizers and red tint plate. Width c. 2.7 mm
Location
Reuse
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
1.9 MB
Aspect
2500:1667
Width
2500 px
Height
1667 px
Brand
Nikon
Model
D5500
Exposure
1/40 s ISO 100
Tint
Vivid violet
Submitted
14 February 2019
Taken
30 January 2019
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