Polished Porphyry slab. PO 130

PO130.  Pink porphyry slab, cut and polished  on one side.

From Mindoolah, Western Australia.

Dimensions at widest points approximately 270 mm x 150 mm x 8 mm thick.

Weighs 711 grams.

Porphyry is a general term that is used rather loosely for  igneous rocks which contain relatively large isolated crystals set in a fine-grained groundmass.

The porphyry pictured here has pinkish coloured clinozoisite crystals set in a ground mass of dolerite.

The clinozoisite has replaced but retained the shape of plagioclase feldspar crystals.