Metamorphism

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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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Chilled MarginThis is a dike of Andesite magma that intruded a sandstone near Lima, Peru. A dike is

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Marble colorsMarble is a metamorphic rock composed dominantly of the mineral calcite (calcium carbon

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Light and dark slateSlate is a type of metamorphic rock that breaks or cleaves along planes. You’ve

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Rock and rollWhen I look at a rock like this I find that I almost can feel the motion within. It’s l

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Ultra-high temperature rocks found in the US.OK, well they’re not hot anymore, but they once were. T

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Sheared rubyA rather nice little crystal of red corundum from the Mogok stone tract of Burma testifi

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CharoiteOne of the world’s more unusual gemstone materials is the rare mineral Charoite, named

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Benitoite on natroliteWhile we have covered California’s state gemstone before (see http://on.

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ClinozoisiteA close relative of the mineral we know more commonly as Tanzanite (see http://tinyurl.c

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Magnificent rhodoniteWhile we covered this beautiful pink to red manganese silicate before (see http

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Milkyway over the MatterhornOne of Europe’s tallest peaks stands proudly at 4,478 metres on th

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How Solid Rocks FlowActually, there are several mechanisms by which solid rocks flow, and some flow

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Garnets.A garnet is not a single mineral; instead it is a group of minerals with slightly differing

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Distortion 2As we illustrated in the last post, some processes are universal, such as the response o

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Whopping nephrite boulderNephrite is one of the two unrelated minerals that occupy the umbrella term

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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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Lovely Listwaenite!Listwaenite, in this case, is the alteration product of an already altered ultram

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

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