This blog provides a selection of images - mostly photomicrographs - of peridotites. Comments and questions are welcome. If you got here via a search engine, check out the blog archive (at right) - There's a lot to see. If you want to enlarge an image beyond what the interface allows, use "save image as", or drag it (the enlarged image) to your desktop and enlarge it further with graphics software or with your browser.
In this image: mostly olivine (bright colors) with incipient serpentinization, and a few large (gray) grains of orthopyroxene. Josephine peridotite, a component of the Josephine ophiolite sequence. Klamath Mountains, Josephine County, southwest Oregon. Digital mosaic of four 2x-objective images. XPL. Imaged area 5.1 mm x 7.6 mm.
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