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      <title><![CDATA[L172
Ultramafic cumulate]]></title>
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<h2>Ultramafic cumulate</h2></div>
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<div class="element-text">Greenish black, coarse-grained rock, comprising olivine, clinopyroxene and plagioclase.<br />Grains typically 1-2 mm across.<span> </span></div>
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<h3>Thin-section</h3>
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<p>Olivine<span> </span><br />-<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/256">Subhedral</a><span> </span>to<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/189">euhedral</a><span> </span>grains making up ~45% of the rock.<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/170">Alteration</a><span> </span>to magnetite and serpentine, particularly along the curving cracks. Cracks across the thin-section, could be due to expansion of the rock as the olivine was altered.</p>
<p>Clinopyroxene<span> </span><br />-<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/211">Interstitial</a><span> </span>phase making up ~35% of the rock. Moderate<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/247">relief</a>, inclined<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/190">extinction</a> and first order pink to second order orange interference colours.</p>
<p>Plagioclase feldspar<span> </span><br />- Interstitial phase making up ~20% of the rock. Low first order interference colours and<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/169">lamellar twinning</a>.</p>
<p>Accessory minerals - Biotite, small, interstitial grains, altered.</p>
<p>This is a cumulate rock. It has undergone late-stage shear banding.</p>
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<p>Olivine<span> </span><a href="https://wserv3.esc.cam.ac.uk/p1acollections/items/show/236">phenocrysts</a><span> </span>crystallised first.<span> </span><br />Clinopyroxene grew around the olivine phenocrysts.<span> </span><br />Interstitial feldspar filled in the remaining gaps.<span> </span><br />Shearing of the rock produced bands of deformation.<span> </span><br />Hydrothermal alteration.</p>
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