File:Anorthosite with labradorite (Wiborg Batholith, 1633 Ma; Kymi Province, Finland) 11.jpg
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English: Anorthosite from the Precambrian of Finland.
Anorthosite is a coarsely-crystalline, intrusive igneous rock dominated by plagioclase feldspar. Pyroxene and other minerals are often present in minor amounts. Anorthosite is an uncommon rock on Earth, but is abundant on the Moon. The sample seen here has very large crystals of labradorite, a type of plagioclase feldspar that often shows a rainbow play of colors. This comes from a gabbro-anorthosite body in Finland's Wiborg Batholith. Mineral percentages reported from the intrusion: 81% labradorite, 10% pyroxene, 4% quartz, and 5% other minerals. I don't see pyroxene in this sample, so I'm calling it anorthosite. If the specimen had less than 90% labradorite, it would be a gabbroic anorthosite. Geologic unit: 1 x 2 square kilometer gabbro-anorthosite body in the central Wiborg Batholith, Baltic Shield/Fennoscandian Shield, late Paleoproterozoic, 1.633 Ga Locality: attributed to a quarry at Ylijärvi (= Geological Survey of Finland map 3133, sheet 1, grid coordinates 6740.20-35467.50), ~6 kilometers southwest of Ylämaa village, southern Kymi Province, southern Finland |
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