#Lamproite

2025-09-06

Leucite has a range of volcanic hills named after it, see:
geowyo.com/leucite-hills.html

These are strange, high potassium lamproites from the mantle, only 1-2 million years old.

Match that, organic goo #carpathite !

Students at Smith College have a nice page of #leucite thin section images:
science.smith.edu/geosciences/

#MinCup25 #SmithCollege #Wyoming #Lamproite #OrganicGoo

Boar's Tusk in the Leucite Hills, Wyoming. From Wikimedia, photo by James St. John.A thin section of leucite in cross-polars, showing the twinning formed when high-temperature isometric crystals transition to tetragonal symmetry. From Smith College, https://www.science.smith.edu/geosciences/petrology/petrography/leucite/leucite.html
Matt WillemsenNonog@fedibird.com
2023-09-21

To form pink diamonds, build and destroy a supercontinent
Most of the world’s pink diamonds may have emerged from the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna
sciencenews.org/article/pink-d #Pink #Diamonds #Nuna #supercontinent #breakup #ArgyleMine #australia #lamproite

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