Obsidian

Posted by Granyia on 2017-03-21

Vitreous, glassy texture: These cool almost instantaneously. Obsidian derives from rhyolitic magmas that ascend and cool too quickly to grow any crystals at all. Thus a natural glass, or vitrophyre, is formed. Image Obsidian boulder

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