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Figure 3. Exceptionally coarse-grained gabbro. In this rock, the pyroxene crystals (dark green) weather less easily than the finer grained feldspar (white), and are therefore presented in raised relief. Some of the pyroxene crystals have cores of amber olivine.


Last updated on May 13, 2010