Sentences with phrase «olivine crystals»

To understand how water affects subduction of the oceanic plate, in which layers of different rock types sink into the mantle, the UO team studied hydrogen isotopes in water contained in tiny blobs of glass trapped in olivine crystals in basalt.

This stunningly distinctive characteristic is the cause of olivine crystals created from volcanic activity.

One paramount goal: completing his collection of pallasites, pretty meteorites that often contain green olivine crystals suspended in a gray matrix like luminous polka dots.

Perhaps even more unusual, the green sand at Papakolea is a most unusual sight - the color comes from Olivine crystals that occur naturally in the area.

The surrounding olivine crystals prevent water form escaping during an eruption, providing researchers an idea of what the inside of the moon is like.

Melt inclusions are tiny dots of magma frozen within olivine crystals.

An S2 however, would show under the microscope some uneven darkening of olivine crystals as the specimen is examined in polarized light and there might be cracking of mineral grains in along paths other than the normal cleavage of the crystals.

A little olivine crystal in the Bunbury Basalt, for instance, or whether it's in the lava fields of Hawaii — taking it down to the nitty gritty in theoretical chemistry is the magnesium, iron and oxygen atom, which they do in Year 9 in looking at ionic compounds.

One is beautifully colored green with olivine crystals and the other a brilliant white made from finely ground coral sand.

The team then twisted the olivine - melt mixture under high temperatures and high pressure to determine the influence of melt on the alignment of olivine crystals.

The researchers performed hundreds of indentation tests on tiny olivine crystals less than a centimeter square and found that the olivine crystal became weaker as the size of the diamond tip increased.

The technique allowed them to recreate pressure conditions similar to those inside the earth by pressing a diamond tip that was carefully machined to a specific geometry into the olivine crystal to measure the material's response.

The beach is green - colored due to the olivine crystals found in the sand.

The beach contains a large amount of olivine crystals, the same that originate from volcanic materials.