A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Chromite on serpentine rock |
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| Description | Although its primary origin is ultra-mafic rocks such as peridotites, chromite is also found in metamorphic rocks such as serpentites. Chromite, FeCr2O4 (iron chromium oxide), as is indicated by its early crystallization, is resistant to the altering affects of high temperatures and pressures. Thus it is capable of going through the metamorphic processes unscathed, while other minerals around it are being altered to serpentine, biotite and garnets. This characteristic also explains chromites use as a refractory component in the bricks and linings of blast furnaces. |
| Location | USA ▹ Montana ▹ Nye |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-31. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #406. |
| Key words | Chromite, Serpentine, Montana |
| Tech details | 1.0 MB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1400 |
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