Cochise College          Virtual Geology

                          Geology Home Page                 Field Trips

                          Roger Weller, geology instructor

                          wellerr@cochise.edu
                                  copyright 2005-R.Weller
Hawaii
Maui

weathering of basalt-yellow oxidation-3
The yellow-brown color is due to the presence of limonite.


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