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ABSAROKITE [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

An alkalic basalt consisting of about equal amounts of olivine, augite, labradorite, and sanidine, with accessory biotite, apatite, and opaque oxides.

OBS

Leucite is sometimes present in small amounts. Absarokite forms a series with shoshonite with decreasing amounts of olivine and increasing amounts of plagioclase and sanidine.

OBS

It was named by Iddings in 1895 from the Absaroka Range, Wyoming.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Balsate alcalin contenant approximativement les mêmes proportions d'olivine, d'augite, de labradorite et de sanidine.

OBS

La biotite, l'apatite et les oxydes opaques sont en faibles quantités. On peut également rencontrer, en plus petite quantité, de la leucite.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Traquiandesita con fenocristales de olivino y augita en una mesostasis con plagioclasa, feldespato potásico y, ocasionalmente, leucita.

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