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HAWAI‘I ROCKS (and minerals). Oceanite (from Mauna Loa) – a basalt with >40% mafic phenocrysts, and all the phenocrysts are olivine. olivine.

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1 HAWAI‘I ROCKS (and minerals)

2 Oceanite (from Mauna Loa) – a basalt with >40% mafic phenocrysts, and all the phenocrysts are olivine. olivine

3 Ankaramite (from Hualālai) – a basalt with >40% mafic phenocrysts, and those phenocrysts consist of olivine and pyroxene olivine pyroxene

4 Pyroxene crystals, weathered out of ankaramite lavas, East Maui SW rift zone

5 Outer, weathered surface of ankaramite from Rarotonga, Cook Islands pyroxene

6 Freshly broken surface of ankaramite from Rarotonga, Cook Islands pyroxene olivine amygdule (former vesicle, now filled with some sort of secondary mineral)

7 Vesicular basalt (from Kohala) with lots of little clusters of plagioclase feldspar phenocrysts (and a few olivine phenocrysts). plagioclase feldspar olivine vesicle (frozen bubble)

8 Very fine-grained (almost glassy) basalt, from Wai‘anae

9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSPzMva9_CE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lISK1YFcZBM VIDEOS OF SUPER-COOLED WATER

10 Gabbro (from Wailau, Moloka‘i) plagioclase feldspar pyroxene

11 Granite (from Mojave desert, California) plagioclase feldspar quartz potassium feldspar biotite, or maybe hornblende

12 Obsidian, from near Mono Lake, California

13 Pumice from Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a, Hualālai

14 Calcareous sandstone (from near Ko Olina, O‘ahu)

15 Fragment of pāhoehoe lava showing the rapidly-chilled (and therefore glassy) outer surface, and the more slowly-cooled (and therefore crystalline) interior


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