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Garnet staurolite schistAlthough no scale bar is given, the large garnet at the center of this frame

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Folded BlueschistBlueschist is a rock type that, out of this solar system at least, is very likely o

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Folded turbiditesThis image from the Landsat 7 spacecraft shows the ephemeral Ugab River as it flows

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Where one rock stops, and another begins…Snapped on the Portuguese coast, the photo depicts a

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Rock fabric #TBTThis picture comes from Pogibshi Island near Kodiak, Alaska and was taken during a g

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A whiff of old life…..Rocks might live for a long time compared to our biblical three score y

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Geology: Like Cluedo, but with less death and more rocksThe job of a geologist is to study the rocks

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Geology: Like Cluedo, but with less death and more rocksThe job of a geologist is to study the rocks

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Smaragdine starburstsI love the old Roman name for emerald, and unusual crystals, so what better com

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It’s BLUE, it’s SCHIST, it’s – BLUESCHIST!Blueschist is, amongst the rocks found on the surface of t

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The Rama SchistThis is another part of the complex of twisted, bent, metamorphosed, nearly 2 billion

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The Rama SchistThis is another part of the complex of twisted, bent, metamorphosed, nearly 2 billion

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Waves of rockThis image was taken looking down on a beach in Okinawa. The rocks are interbedded sand

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The Brahma SchistThe Vishnu Schist unit that I’ve covered a couple times now is a group of metamorph

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The Brahma SchistThe Vishnu Schist unit that I’ve covered a couple times now is a group of metamorph

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The deformation in the Grand CanyonThese are the same two units I showed in the last post moving up

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The Grand Canyon Metamorphic SuiteYesterday I started at the very bottom of the Grand Canyon by high

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THE MANPUPUNER FORMATIONSIn Mansi their name means “little mountain of the gods”, but they are also

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Flowing rocks This outcrop is found in South Dakota near Mt. Rushmore. The darker rock is a metamorp

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Schist is a metamorphic rock that comes in almost infinite variety, but its main characteristic is h

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