Olivine-bearing basalt

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A vesicular basalt containing phenocrysts of the green mineral olivine. (Translation: a lava rock with lots of gas bubbles and crystals of a green mineral called olivine that were carried up to the surface by the liquid lava when it erupted.) Photo taken at Green Sands Beach, Hawaii.

Callan Bentley

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Original image data dated on or about December 4, 2008