Two generations of precipitates of ilmenite and apatite in garnet. PPol, fov=1cm, entirely within one growth sector of a single garnet crystal. Normal to the growth face lies in the plane of the section. First generation (coarse) follows included fabric NW-SE, second generation (streaks) are submicron crystals decorating unannealed growth dislocations. Note depletion haloes.

#thinsectionthursday Precipitates of ilmenite and apatite in garnet. PPol, fov=1cm, within one growth sector of a single garnet crystal. First generation (coarse) follows included fabric NW-SE, second generation sub micron crystals decorate unannealed growth dislocations. Note depletion haloes.

1976 Mazda RX-3 wagon
1982 Isuzu pickup
1986 Honda Accord
1997 VW New Beetle Diesel
2006 Subaru WRX Wagon

(All manual)

Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.

Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.
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Pyrope and minor kyanite in matrix of phengite and palisade-textured quartz from Dora Maira. Section is slightly above standard thickness.

Pyrope and minor kyanite in matrix of phengite and palisade-textured quartz from the Dora Maira massif, N. Italy. Section is slightly above standard thickness.
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Yes this rock was once a beach sand containing very rare >4by zircon crystals that weathered out of a long-gone hunk of truly ancient crust. The individual crystals can be dated. Huge effort has gone into finding more of the >4by ones.

No there was no unusual pressure in the *Hadean*
Your specimen is apparently a bit of Jack Hills Quartzite,
ca. 3.0 billion years old.
There is an extremely small possibility that your specimen happens to include any zircon crystals of Hadean age.

A mentor of mine was bothered by a particularly egregious error in a presentation, and asked the young speaker “are you a faculty member or a graduate student?”.

“I am faculty” in a haughty tone.

“Then I will proceed with my question”.

Andean Condor
Aardwolf
Ivory Gull
Great Gray Owl
Basking Shark

I was in traffic today flipping one off. Great start to the day.

This was the plan from the start, and it’s why we haven’t been shown any real plans. The purported size of the ballroom was always incompatible with the continued existence of the entire East Wing.

Tucson AZ

3’ x 5’ Flag of Greenland 🇬🇱

Malicious compliance. Someone was ordered to write an anti-ICE message, and did just that.

He continued,

“Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”

Kansas City, May 7 1918

Trespasser William

Her native tongue is Forked.

Massive amounts of Saharan dust fertilize the Amazon rainforest Every year, millions of tons of nutrient-rich Saharan dust cross the Atlantic Ocean, bringing vital phosphorus and other fertilizers to depleted Amazon soils. For the first time, scientists have an ac...

Saharan dust also provides much of the phosphorus budget of the Amazon basin.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

Cordyceps

Umm… it’s probably not his *name* being raised in some files that’s the wee problem here…

It’s not Dijon with only yellow mustard.

I thought it would be Chernobyl

President is not in line to become President. First in line is VP, and so on.

Johnson is 2nd *in line*, Harris snd eventually Vance are 1st.

3rd *in line*

Red sprites are real but those images aren’t.

“The giant energy invested in H-He trapping is queasy-constantly released by their degassing.”

From the ‘Highlights’. Noone has noticed or bothered to fix in the 12 years the paper has been up.

Some caution may be necessary. Could really be that not all microdiamond is UHP.

“evidence for the natural formation of metastable diamond at low P (<200 MPa) and low T (<350 °C) during serpentinisation”

www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2029/