Parallel Platy Olivine Crystals (IMAGE)

CSIRO Australia

Parallel Platy Olivine Crystals

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Micrograph showing sheaves of parallel platy olivine crystals making so called "spinifex texture," from a komatiite flow at Wildara, Western Australia.

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