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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Jones
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: glassy vesicular stretched
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Jones
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: analyzer <90 deg. glassy vesicular stretched
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Jones
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: prominent mafic minerals typical of GP. mineral-rich
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Jones
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: prominent mafic minerals typical of GP. mineral-rich
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Fish
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: In cross-polarized light, glassy quenched rind is invisible along grain margins, but visible as scaly texturing disrupting birefringence on the body of the amphibole grain. From an unidentified tephra occurrence on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Image Tags: amphibole hornblende pleiochroic green prismatic quenched-rind mafic-mineral volcanic-glass
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: not specified
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: Quenched magmatic rind (glassy) prominent in side view along grain margins. From an unidentified tephra occurrence on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Image Tags: amphibole hornblende pleiochroic green prismatic quenched-rind mafic-mineral volcanic-glass
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Quenched glassy rind coating euhedral feldspar grain
Image Tags: feldspar volcanic-glass overgrowth tephra
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Glacier Peak(?) crystal-rich tephra
Image Tags: tephra volcanic-glass crystalline mafic minerals
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 100.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Glacier Peak(?) crystal-rich tephra
Image Tags: tephra volcanic-glass crystalline mafic minerals
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Glacier Peak(?) crystal-rich tephra
Image Tags: tephra volcanic-glass crystalline mafic minerals
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Glacier Peak(?) crystal-rich tephra
Image Tags: tephra volcanic-glass crystalline mafic minerals
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Shapley
Notes: Quenched glassy rind coating euhedral feldspar grain
Image Tags: feldspar volcanic-glass overgrowth tephra
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: basaltic tephra presumed to be from Craters of the Moon basaltic province
Image Tags: basaltic mafic micro-tubule Pele's-Hair
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Redfish Lake, ID
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400.0
Submitted by: Mark Shapley
Notes: basaltic tephra presumed to be from Craters of the Moon basaltic province
Image Tags: basaltic mafic micro-tubule Pele's-Hair
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: not specified
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: not specified
Submitted by: Guy Rothwell
Notes: Field of volcanic glass shards showing a wide range of shard morphology, including semi-regular fragments packed with subparallel pipe vesicles and vesicular glass fragments and bubble wall shards, foraminifera and large biotite mica flake also in the field., volcanic-glass pyroclastic pipe-vesicles shards
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Yellowstone
Light type: Cross-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400
Submitted by: Val Stanley
Notes: Highly vesicular volcanic shard
Image Tags: vesicular
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Unique Identification: Tephra
Site name: Yellowstone
Light type: Plane-Polarized Light
Magnification: 400
Submitted by: Val Stanley
Notes: none
Image Tags: green vesicular
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