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Eclogite

Friday July 8, 2005
And here's the rock that the pyrope came from: eclogite. I am thrilled to have this in hand. What the photo doesn't show is the intense finely glittering surface it has in sunlight, the result of a felted groundmass of deep-blue glaucophane.

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January 12, 2009 at 3:54 pm
(1) Douh says:

I find the photo and info on ecologite very interesting. Where could I get a sample?

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