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Sillimanite and Cordierite
in a Granulite from Calabria, Italy
width 2,7 mm

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2022-07-22

You can be the most creative artist in the world, but you are never going to beat Nature.

Plagioclase-Pyroxene symplectite after garnet (granulite from Manitoba, CA)

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2022-02-09

Because without is just eh...

from top left clockwise: Conglomerate (Carboneras, Spain); Serpentinite (Saint Florent, Corsica); Graphite in Granulite (Manitoba, Canada); Symplectite in Granulite (Kerala, India).

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2021-05-12


Some for my webinar on the of under the tomorrow at
from top left clockwise Andalusite (Lipari); Tiger's Eye (South Africa); Agate (Brazil)… Granulite (Namibia)

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2020-11-27


"Pseudomorphs" after melt films are among the most reliable microstructures indicating the former presence of melt. Here in a felsic granulite from the KKB, India.
The lambda plate helps visualization a lot.

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2020-11-06

today brings us to the Kola Peninsula. A cut pebble of gorgeous felsic granulite in my hand, and three different ways its SILLIMANITE appears under the microscope. Sample kindly provided by Oksana Churakova.

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2020-10-07

Photomicrographs for your
left: plagioclase-pyroxene symplectite in granulite from Manitoba, CA
right: another "Heart of Stone", from Mar Menor, Spain

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2020-09-06

SQUARED ROCKS for your
From top left clockwise: Graphitic Granulite; Radiating Andalusite; Spinifex Metaperidotite; Ocean Jasper.
Enjoy!

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2020-06-27


The 3 most reliable microstructural criteria for the former presence of melt in a migmatite: crystal faces, pseudomorphs after melt films and nanogranitoids.
The is a granulite from the KKB of India.
microscope

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2020-05-15


is the most useful and reliable host for studying nanogranitoids!

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2019-09-08