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| Description: Basalt 30 micron thick slice of basalt photographed through a microscope using transmitted cross-polarized light. Light gray rectangular crystals are feldspar; olivine and pyroxene are variably colored irregular crystals. Individual crystals are extremely small, due to rapid cooling of the lava after eruption
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