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68.3 Metaorthopyroxenite. Rich Mountain, near Boone, North Carolina. Stretched and bent grains of brown orthopyroxene dominate this rock.  A few grains of olivine (green) are present (e.g., near right middle edge) and a patch of yellow limonite is present in the lower right quadrant. [Scale shows cm divisions.]
68.3 Metaorthopyroxenite. Rich Mountain, near Boone, North Carolina. Stretched and bent grains of brown orthopyroxene dominate this rock. A few grains of olivine (green) are present (e.g., near right middle edge) and a patch of yellow limonite is present in the lower right quadrant. [Scale shows cm divisions.]

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