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An andesite from Delarof Harbor, near which the Apollo mine is situated, forms in some respects a transition between the lava of St. Augustine and the more usual type of pyroxene-andesites. It is a greenish-black, somewhat vesicular porphyry, in which the microscope shows phenocrysts of augite, a rhombic pyroxene, which in this case seems to be enstatite rather than bronzite, and labradorite. The groundmass consists of "felted" feldspar microlites, a little augite, a little magnetite, and a considerable amount of glass. The feldspathic microlites are mainly alkaline labradorite, while the phenocrystic crystals are more calcareous, approaching Ab3 An4; but some of the microlites have angles of extinction appropriate to oligoclase. The slide shows decomposition products, especially chlorite, but not in important quantities. |
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