Spherulitic vitrophyre in vitrophyre clast breccia (Nez Perce Creek Flow, ~152 ka; Firehole Canyon roadcut, Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA) 5 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Spherulitic vitrophyre in vitrophyre clast breccia (Nez Perce Creek Flow, ~152 ka; Firehole Canyon roadcut, Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA) 5 / James St. John
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Spherulitic obsidian in obsidian clast breccia in the Pleistocene of Wyoming, USA.This outcrop is part of a rhyolite lava flow that erupted in the Yellowstone Caldera during the last Ice Age (Pleistocene). Yellowstone itself is an enormous hotspot volcano - it has semi-regular, giant ash eruptions every 600,000 to 650,000 years or so. After Yellowstone's last mega-eruption and caldera collapse (at ~640 ka), relatively minor volcanic activity occurred in the caldera. Most of this consisted of rhyolite lava flow volcanism, but some basalt lava flow volcanism also took place.The exposure shown above is part of the Nez Perce Creek Flow (Middle Pleistocene, ~152 ka) at its westernmost margin. This lava flow is well exposed in a series of roadcuts along Firehole Canyon Drive in Yellowstone National Park. Rocks there include gray rhyolites, finely-fractured obsidian, and rhyolite breccias having obsidian clasts (seen here).The gray material at left is rhyolite & the dark material is part of a clast consisting of felsic porphyritic obsidian (= glassy rhyolite), which has small whitish crystals (feldspar and other minerals) plus small to large spherulites. Spherulites are subspheroidal to somewhat irregularly shaped masses in some volcanic rocks. They typically have conspicuous, outward-radiating textures.Stratigraphy: Nez Perce Creek Flow, Central Plateau Member, Plateau Rhyolite, upper Middle Pleistocene, ~152 ka (148-160 ka)Locality: roadcut on eastern side of Firehole Canyon Drive, eastern side of the Firehole River Canyon, western Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming, USA |
| 撮影日 | 2015-07-08 12:26:39 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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