Description: Pillow-lava metabasite
Alamedilla, Granada, Andalucía, Spain
6 x 7 cm.
In Alamedilla basaltic-basanitic pillow-lavas we can find these greenish vesicles similar to peas. Sometimes they are empty and holey. Calcite and iron oxides also appear in the specimen.
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