Eclogite from Norway - full thin section

Click on image to enlarge.          Specimen: Oliver Pluemper; Photo: Dan Snyder

Full thin section of eclogite from western Norway. Darkest (opaque) shapes are garnet; large brown mass at upper left is orthopyroxene; pale yellow and light brown grains at left and upper right are mostly clinopyroxene; gray, black and white grains at lower right and lower center are quartz. Macrophotograph in XPL. Imaged area 22mm by 43mm.

See post of June 14, 2012 for detailed description of rock and higher-magnification photomicrographs.

Many thanks to Oliver Pluemper of the University of Oslo for the specimen.