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Let's not forget #mineralmonday!
SILLIMANITE is a hot mineral!
Provenance from top left clockwise: Vedrette di Ries (Italy); El Hoyazo (Spain); Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy); Kola Peninsula (Russia)
#science #geology #rocks #minerals #petrology #metamorphism #sciart #STEM #art
#MigmatiteMonday (what a nice new hashtag1)
In places it may be obvious, but you should always ask: "Has this rock ever been partially melted?"
#Microstructures can answer: euhedral crystal faces; pseudomorphs after melt films; nanogranitoids.
#geology #petrology #rocks #micro
From the Hall of Fame of @micROCKScopica:
Bitter @campari, under the microscope and over a suimsuit
Have a nice #weekend
#sugar #vacations #photography #fashion #wallart #sciart
RT: the beauty of Ocean Jasper under the microscope!
Basically, all you see is silica SiO2.
Have a nice #weekend!
#science #art #geology #STEM #rocks #minerals #microscope #photography #colors #gemstones #jewels #weekendvibes
an atypical #mineralmonday
but actually SUCROSE is naturally occurring...
even if, like in this case, it crystallises from @campari
#science #geology #chemistry #art #sugar #minerals #colors #crystals
#mineralmonday
STAUROLITE anyone?
Provenance, from top left clockwise: Himalaya (thanks @geologyclare for sample); Vedrette di Ries aureole; near Taos, NM (outcrop and then micro).
#geology #minerals #rocks #microscope
A garnet schist with lovely pleochroic halos in the biotite (probably small zircons in there)