Volcanic beach sand, Devil's Island, Antarctica
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Devil's Island | coarse-grained beach sand |
Location |
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Beach on Devil's Island, West Antarctica, |
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63°48'S, 057°17'W ; |
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east of James Ross Island) |
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Provenance:
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Depositional facies | high-energy shoreline |
Provenance | mafic to intermediary |
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volcanic |
Composition |
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pyroxene, hornblende, plagioclase, opaque ore minerals | |
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Texture | oarse-grained (mean ca. 1500 µ), very poorly sorted, rounded Coarse beach sand |
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Petrographic thin section:
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Bright field | Dark field |
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Description | Olive-green amphiboles and the black ore minerals are visible in the bright-field image. The translucent minerals in the dark field show |
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the distinct first- and second-order |
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Texture:
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Texture of the grains, ecc.
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Sample Number:
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colors and the cleavage of clinopyroxenes |
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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0069 |
Collector | Dr. Bernd Weber, Potsdam |
number of the sample
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Collector:
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Collector of the sand, Institution
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Date:
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Date of sampling | September 2005 |
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Comments:
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Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.The composition of this beach sand is remarkable because of the the good preservation and dominace of minerals sensitive to chemical weathering
