This fresh, 7-centimetre specimen of dunite was collected on Dun Mountain. The rock is composed almost entirely of interlocking grains of yellowish-green olivine, with tiny black grains of chromite.
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Reference:
GNS_RC_Dn_09
Photograph by Richard Cook
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