Vogesite

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Vogesite is a greenish-gray to dark-gray sub-volcanic rock that is named after the Vosges . Vogesite is a dark gangue rock ( lamprophyr ) and consists of alkali feldspar , plagioclase (subordinate), brown hornblende and diopside augite . Often there is also a small amount of olivine , which has usually been transformed into serpentine .

literature

  • Wolfhard Wimmenauer: Petrography of igneous and metamorphic rocks . Enke, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-432-94671-6 , pp. 147 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mineralienatlas: Vogesit , accessed on February 7, 2017