A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Ilmenite |
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| Description | Ilmenite, FeTiO3 (iron titanium oxide), is an economically important and interesting mineral. Ilmenite forms as a primary mineral in mafic igneous rocks and is concentrated into layers by a process called “magmatic segregation”. It crystallizes out of a magma relatively early before most of the other minerals. As a result, the heavier crystals of ilmenite fall to the bottom of the magma chamber and collect in layers. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-31. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3189. |
| Key words | ilmenite |
| Tech details | 680 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1402 |
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