For my young geo-friends who have some trouble looking at "real" rocks up close in the field. Hope this will help!
Dr Annie
Saturday, September 02, 2006
If it's green --
--it's olivine. Usually this doesn't work, but the olivine in this very fresh dunite from Voidolakkos (Vourinos) is indeed green. The black accessory minerals are chromite, aka, chrome spinel.
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