UKVM Collection | Geolab ¦ Geoscience e-Laboratory

The United Kingdom Virtual Microscope (UKVM) collection consists of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic teaching sets.
Access the digital thin sections on the Open University's Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences Project website.

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Rock Type	Rock Class Primary	Rock Class Secondary	Rock Class Notes	Map_Location
Aegirine granite	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic	Rockall
Altered granite with tourmaline and cassiterite vein	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic
Altered tourmaline granite	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic	St Austell
Amygdaloidal basalt	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Papa Stour
Amygdaloidal basalt	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Rum
Basalt	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Giant's Causeway
Basalt	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Staffa
Basalt with spinel lherzolite xenolith	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic
Basalt with xenolith North Berwick	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic
Basaltic andesite with cordierite nodule	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic
Biotite granite	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic	Luxulyan
Biotite granite	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic	St Austell
Bytownite gabbro	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic
Cordierite/mullite nodule in basalt	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic
Diorite Loch Doon	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic
Dunite Peridotite Isle of Skye	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic
Explosion breccia	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Wheal Remfry
Feldspathic Porphyritic felsite	Igneous	Igneous	Volcanic	Isle of Rum
Fluxion Gabbro	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic	Ardnamurchan
Gabbro with chromite band	Igneous	Igneous	Magmatic

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