A stunning mylonitic peridotite xenolith from Udachnaya kimberlite
by Bernardo Cesare, Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
As in the title...
Porphyroclasts of pyroxene in a recrystallized matrix of olivine
Polychromatic polarization (Shribak, 2015).
Width of view c. 3 mm.
Thanks Federico Casetta for kindly providing the thin section.
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Taken on 15
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2025
Submitted on 31 March 2025
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Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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