Story: Rock and mineral names
A thin section (a 10-millimetre-wide microscope slice) of dunite from Dun reveals the beautiful coloration, under polarised light, of interlocking grains of olivine. The small black grains are chromite, which is opaque under the microscope.
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Photograph by Nick Mortimer
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