Matter
- Name
- Basaltic Hawaii sand
- Family
- mineral
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Patrick Pinet, Serge Chevrel, IRAP, OMP, 14 avenue E Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
- Body name
- Earth
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Picnic Area and Campground, Kamoamoa Beach , Big island, Hawaii , United States
Coordinates
- System
- WGS84
- Position type
- point
- Geolocation
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Point Latitude Longitude Altitude #1 19.318° -155.045° 0.0 m
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- igneous rock (volcanic rock (fine-grained crystalline rock))
- Comments
- tholeiitic basaltic sand from a lava flow (1986) eroded by marine effect with very few olivine and pyroxenes crystals as seen with naked eyes
- Shape
- irregular
- Texture
- compact coarse grained
- Type of porosity
- open pores
- Texture
- compact microporous
- Size distribution
- diameter less than a few millimeters
- Comments
- rough grain aspect, opaque and angular with specular cavities