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Anorthosites metamorphosed to granulite facies underly most of the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. This sample illustrates beautiful examples of garnet coronas around pyroxenes. This one's for you, Chief!
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Teeming with garnets big and small, fresh and weathered, the Setters Schist is a muscovite schist metamorphosed from a pelitic protolith in (presumably) the Taconian orogeny. It also features staurolite, which is present in this sample, and kyanite, which isn't. Sample collected in Sparks, MD. Image made as part ...
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Garnet porphyroblasts may be seen in the metamorphosed Castner Marble exposed in the eastern Franklin Mountains north of El Paso, Texas.
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Scale at top is in centimeters.
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Garnets weathering out of a boulder of gneiss (Tolland County, CT). Tried to get nice morning light on the vein containing the reddish garnets - was hard with the trees, though... the leaves were almost as bad as the clouds!
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The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Geology and Mineral Resources has their offices in Charlottesville, Virginia. Outside their building is an exceptional collection of large rock samples from across the state. Samples include igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks from all five physiographic provinces, a...
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First of two, shot at f 3.5.
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I had originally hoped to get into the Barton Garnet Mine to shoot a macroGigaPan of the famous Gore Mountain garnets, but unfortunately I was a little too early in the season. The garnets at the locality featured here are from a now-abandoned garnet mine in the area that is currently located on state lands. The garn...
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I don't know the exact locality for this sample as I reclaimed off the rock pile at UW-Madison.
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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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