A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Basalt layer containing ultramafic xenoliths, Elephant Butte, New Mexico |
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| Description | This interesting basalt unit (dark layer) is about 1 meter thick. It contains abundant xenoliths of different lithologies. The most common are (mantle)lherzolites, and (crustal) granulites. The basalt cuts across the apparent bedding in the surrounding country rock, but has been described as a flow in some literature. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico. Near Truth or Consequences. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2004. |
| Key words | xenolith, ultramafic, lherzolite, granulite, Elephant Butte |
| Tech details | 688 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 3115 |
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