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Decomposed basalt (Dry)

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Notes: Sample in Dent's collar box. Handwritten label accompanying sample reads "Basalt much decomposed summit of Gunong Api Banda". Another handwritten label reads "Basalt Gunong Api Banda. Surface decomposed by action of heat & gases exhaled. crumbled decomposed part was all one piece.". To see Oxford University Museum of Natural History's database go to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/lifecoll2.htm