Hornblendite Thin Section Photos. Click on any photo for a larger image. Some of the larger images may be on other web sites and will open in a new window.

Hornblendite Thin Section

hbnts_001. Thin section of hornblendite in plane polarized light. This sample is composed mainly of hornblende (large crystal which occupies the majority of the field) and minor clinopyroxene (the three crystals on the upper right, left, and bottom center). See the original image on the Complutense University of Madrid website.



Missing Thin Section

hbnts_002. Thin section of hornblendite in plane polarized light. Image from Chiara Groppo [CC BY-SA 2.5] on Wikimedia Commons.