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Do you like shear zones, microstructures and crustal extension? https://t.co/8DFBNUC4WT

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2022-11-11

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Pseudomorphs after melt films: When there's little doubt this rock from the Kerala Khondalite Belt was once partially melted.

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2022-10-20

(what a nice new hashtag1)
In places it may be obvious, but you should always ask: "Has this rock ever been partially melted?"
can answer: euhedral crystal faces; pseudomorphs after melt films; nanogranitoids.

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2021-03-15


"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

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers.........https://t.co/RIzt0IKQo6 (Open access) (Images: BHL)

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2020-02-11

Hey geologists! You've been silent lately. Too tired after ?
Let me cheer you up with one of my favorite photomicrographs, that has lovely colors but also lovely microstructures in it.

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2019-10-15