Basalt Photos
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Roger Weller, geology instructor                       

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2007

amygdaloidal basalt-2

cut slab of silicified basalt
An amygdaloidal basalt is one in with the gas created vesicles have been filled with a
mineral (amygdules). This amygdaloidal basalt has also been silicified. 


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