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Laboratory # 02 Igneous Rocks and Their Textures. 1.1 Description of Hand Samples
Laboratory # 02 Igneous Rocks and Their Textures. 1.1 Description of Hand Samples
List of Properties
Texture Clastic
Structure Massive
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 5
Cleavage: _______
Parting:
Fracture:
1
Student of Geology, Yachay Tech University.
1.1.2
List of Properties
Color: Light-coloured
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: White
Hardness: 5
Q’ [(20x100)/75]% = 27%
P’ [(50x100)/75]% = 67%
A’ [5x100)/75]% = 6%
F’ ___
M’ 25%
1.1.3
List of Properties
Texture Phaneritic
Structure Massive
Streak: White
Hardness: 5
Fracture: Partial
Luster: Submetallic
Olivine: 60%
Orthopyroxene: 30%
Clinopyroxene: 10%
1.1.4
List of Properties
Texture: Inequigranular
Streak: White
Hardness: 5
Q’ [(24x100)/98]% = 24%
P’ [(5x100)/98]% = 5%
A’ [71x100)/98]% = 71%
F’ ___
M’ 2%
1.1.5
List of Properties
Color: Black
Texture: Porphyritic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 6
Q’ [(5x100)/50]% = 10%
P’ [(35x100)/50]% = 70%
A’ [10x100)/50]% = 93%
F’ ___
M’ 50%
1.1.6
List of Properties
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 6
Q’ [(10x100)/95]% = 11%
P’ [(80x100)/95]% = 84%
A’ [5x100)/95]% = 5%
F’ ___
M’ 5%
1.1.7
List of Properties
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 6
Q’ [(5x100)/95]% = 5%
P’ [(75x100)/95]% = 79%
A’ [15x100)/95]% = 16%
F’ ___
M’ 5%
1.1.8
List of Properties
Color: Pink
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: White
Hardness: 5
Luster: Vitreous
Q’ [(25x100)/90]% = 26%
P’ [(30x100)/50]% = 32%
A’ [40x100)/50]% = 42%
F’ ___
M’ 10%
1.1.9
List of Properties
Color: Black
Texture: Aphanitic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 5
List of Properties
Color: Brown
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 6
Q’ [(5x100)/35]% = 14%
P’ [(10x100)/35]% = 28%
A’ [20x100)/35]% = 58%
F’ ___
M’ 5%
1.1.11
List of Properties
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: White
Hardness: 5
Luster: Vitreous
Q’ [(6x100)/70]% = 9%
P’ [(10x100)/70]% = 14%
A’ [54x100)/70]% = 77%
F’ ___
M’ 70%
1.1.12
List of Properties
Texture: Fragmental
Streak: White
Hardness: 6
Ash 65%
Lapilli 35%
1.1.13
List of Properties
Color: Black
Texture: Aphanitic
Streak: Black
Hardness: 5
Luster: Vitreous
Olivine 45
Orthopyroxene 30
Clinopyroxene 25
1.1.14
List of Properties
Texture: Aphanitic
Streak: Brown
Hardness: 5
Olivine 35%
Orthopyroxene 30%
Clinopyroxene 35%
1.1.15
List of Properties
Texture: Phaneritic
Streak: Black
Hardness: 4
Q’ [(2x100)/60]% = 3%
P’ [(45x100)/60]% = 75%
A’ [13x100)/60]% = 22%
F’ ___
M’ 40%
1.2 Analyses of igneous thin sections.
Task 1: For thin sections M01,V18-8, and 8-79 provide a complete description of the rock.
Include major, minor, and accessory minerals, and their approximate modal abundances.
Additionally, report relevant textures in the rock. Finally, classify the rock providing an
appropriate name based on the IUGS recommendation.
1.2.1
1.2.2
Accessory minerals:
Note: (Harzburgite)
1.2.3
Minor minerals:
Accessory minerals:
1.2.4
M06: The texture of this rock has a funny name. Which is it?
Solution: Rapakivi Texture
1.2.5
412. This is a serpentinized peridotite. Can you provide a more precise classification
of the rock?
Olivino: 85 %
Orthopyroxene: 10 %
Clinopyroxene: 3 %
Hornblende: 2%
1.2.6
GM58: Which features allow you recognize zoning of the various minerals species in
this thin section.
The characteristic that allows us to recognize the oscillatory zoning in plagioclase is the
angle of extinction that in different angles presents different compositions such as the layers
of an onion.
The characteristic that allows us to recognize the zonation in the hornblende is the color, in
which two different colors can be seen in the center with a darker color and a clearer one in
both the PPL and XPL.
There is biotite.
Garnet zoning is observed, which differs by the darker color outward and clear in the center.