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.
Thin section of Twin Sisters dunite showing strained olivine and pyroxene grains with deformation banding. Cascade Mountains, Whatcom County, northwestern Washington. Macrophotograph, XPL. Imaged area 21 mm x 40 mm. Link to Dan McShane's Twin Sisters page.
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