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.
Yellow Dog peridotite. Digital mosaic of four 2x-objective images. In this image: rounded and fractured olivine crystals with serpentine meshwork and stringers of magnetite along fractures, pyroxene (yellow), plagioclase (white/gray), and a little mica (red). Yellow Dog Plains, Marquette County, northern Michigan. XPL. Imaged area 5.4 mm x 7.8 mm.
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