Pillow Basalt

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