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  1. This is a very large roadcut opposite a convenient pullout west of Hague, NY. The rocks exposed here is a metasedimentary gneiss of sillimanite+K-feldspar grade known as kinzigite. A MacroGigaPan illustrating smaller scale features such as feldspar-cored augen can be seen here: share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan....

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  2. Or, rather, a folded gneiss. Near Edwards, New York.

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  3. Willimantic Dome outcrop along Route 6 in Coventry, CT. (Series of Gneisses and Schists, containing lots of nice looking garnets.)

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  4. Garnets weathering out of a gneiss boulder (Tolland County, CT). Same boulder as share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11125, but different angle (and lighting, apparently - less issue with trees, more issue with overexposure, perhaps.)

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  5. A roadcut through a migmatitic gneiss in the Adirondacks.

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  6. Rather large garnet in a rather small gneiss boulder (Tolland County, CT). The garnets seem to be associated with a vein of white minerals (feldspars, mostly) within the gneiss -- this boulder contains a rather large example (4-5 cm), as most of the local garnets are millimeter scale (0.1 - 1 cm in size).

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  7. Gneiss / pegmatite ledges form pools along the Natchaug River in northeastern Connecticut. We didn't hike the entire way back to the swimming hole known as Diana's Pool (this is along the hike) - the outcrop here was too photogenic (and we had other sites to visit!)

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  8. The off/on ramp for Route 6 at Route 32 in Willimantic, CT exposes some gneiss cliffs...

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  9. Part of the rock formation called Devil's Oven, at Devils Hopyard State Park. This particular set of rocks has undergone differential weathering - some parts of the rock weather faster than others - which has left caves in places. Local folklore has it that during the American Revolution, these caves served as hiding...

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  10. There are some far more spectacular roadcuts along I-70 just west of Denver, however this was the most accessible on short notice during my trip to GSA.

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