Title
Pillow Basalt
Identifier
NAO-2
Description
Spilitized pillow basalt with overprinted prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism. Arborescent ophitic to spherulitic texture; ablitized and saussuritized plagioclase, chloritized glass matrix, with occasional epidote.
Date
no date
Contributor
Western Minerals Inc.
Spatial Coverage
Bargone, Italy
Temporal Coverage
Cretaceous-Eocene
Accrual Method
Purchased from Western Minerals Inc.
Unit
Pillow basalt in Ophiolite
Number of Thin Sections
1