Basalt (igneous rock), Romania

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Locality: Romania

Size: 14 cm x 10.5 cm x 5 cm

Type: Igneous extrusive (volcanic) rock

Description: Basalt is a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting predominantly of plagioclase (P), pyroxene, ± opaque minerals (magnetite, ilmenite). In terms of texture, basalts are usually hypocrystalline, aphanitic, and commonly porphyric.

Essential minerals: plagioclase, mafic minerals (like pyroxenes, hornblende and/or biotite)

Non-essential minerals: hornblende, biotite and/or pyroxenes

Website: http://geology.uaic.ro/muzee/mineralogie/

Concept & 3D-modelling by dr. Andrei Ionut APOPEI