8.6" Free-Standing Polished Porphyry Stone Section - Western Australia

Free-Standing Polished Porphyry Stone Section - Western Australia #239751

This is an 8.6" wide, polished section of porphyry stone collected near the town of Cue in Western Australia. The polished face measures 8.7 x 7.75" and the base has been cut flat making for a gorgeous decorative display.

Porphyry is a general term that is used to refer to igneous rocks containing relatively large, isolated crystals set in a fine-grained ground mass. This porphyry has pinkish colored clinozoisite crystals in a mass of dolerite. The clinozoisite has replaced but retained the shape of plagioclase feldspar crystals.

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