Doty Hills
near Centralia, Washington

GEOLOGY
The augite crystals (phenocrysts) are scattered through a greenish black augite-plagioclase porphyry lithic tuff.
Visit Washington Geology, Vol. 27, NO 2/3/4/ December 1999 for more information about this locality.

MINERALS
Augite-
Ca(Mg,Fe)Si2O6 - euhedral phenocrysts to 1", most ~1/2" in length. Most crystals show perfect monoclinic symmetry. Some are twinned on {100}

AUGITE phenocrysts