The Canadian naturalist and quarterly journal of science . ^ altered to olivine. A thin section of the olivine rock or dunite from near MountAlbert, when examined with the microscope, presents the appearance shown in Fiu. 1 a. It is seen to consist almost entirely ofgranular olivine, with occasional black grains of chromic to an alternation of layers with finer and coarser texture, * American Journal of Science^ Vol. XXXIII.; 1862, p. United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth p. 117. HARRINGTON—CANADIAN MINERALS. 255 No. 4.] it shows a more or less


The Canadian naturalist and quarterly journal of science . ^ altered to olivine. A thin section of the olivine rock or dunite from near MountAlbert, when examined with the microscope, presents the appearance shown in Fiu. 1 a. It is seen to consist almost entirely ofgranular olivine, with occasional black grains of chromic to an alternation of layers with finer and coarser texture, * American Journal of Science^ Vol. XXXIII.; 1862, p. United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth p. 117. HARRINGTON—CANADIAN MINERALS. 255 No. 4.] it shows a more or less banded structure. As observed above, anenstatite-like mineral may occasionally be seen in the handspecimen, but none of it happened to occur in the portion sliced. Fig.


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