XENOLITH!!!!! OMG!!!! SOOO FUCKING COOL!!! TERAFORMING THE EARTH WITH ALIEN CRYSTALS IS AWSOME!!!! /POS

#mogai #liom #queer #plagueinc #horror #alien #xenolith

Drew some characters in my style on stream then went on to doodling a whole page of my favorite blorbo + other blorbos!
Been a while my beloved...
#disgaea #doodlebook #fanart #xenolith

Garnetite enclave in garnet clinpyroxenite mantle xenolith
Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#pyroxenite #geology #xenolith #hawaii #volcanology #garnet #garnetite #geoscience

Garnetite enclave in garnet clinopyroxenite mantle xenolith
Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#pyroxenite #geology #xenolith #hawaii #volcanology #garnet #garnetite #geoscience

Dunite and troctolite xenoliths hosted by hawaiitevand closeup of dunite olivines
Laupāhoehoe Volcanics, Mauna kea

#geology #geoscience #volcano #hawaii #maunakea #xenolith #peridotite #dunite #troctolite #olivine

A colorful image showing black garnets, olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene.

A cross-polars image of a garnet lherzolite xenolith from the Cretaceous Nikos kimberlite on Somerset Island, arctic Canada. 2mm scale bar in the lower right corner.

#ThinSectionThursday #Kimberlite #Xenolith #Mantle

Garnetite enclave in garnet pyroxenite mantle xenolith
Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#pyroxenite #geology #xenolith #hawaii #volcanology #garnet #garnetite #geoscience

Plagioclase and spinel peridotites of mantle and crustal origin hosted by basanite

One of the three Nuʻuanu flows (~600 ka), Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau,

#peridotite #xenolith #geology #geoscience #volcano #Hawaii

Chrome diopside vein in peridotite mantle xenolith.

San Carlos Volcanic Field, San Carlos Apache Reservation, Arizona

#peridotite #xenolith #lherzolite #geology #geoscience #chromediopside #pyroxene #clinopyroxene #Volcano

Is this xenolith an orthopyroxene-bearing troctolite or a plagioclase-bearing olivine websterite? 😭 I'll have to not forgot my loupe again when back in January.

Kaʻūpūlehu Flow Field, Hualālai Volcanics, Hualālai, Hawaiʻi

#xenolith #mafic #ultramafic #troctolite #websterite #geoscience #geology

Revisiting this Honolulu Volcanics mantle xenolith which has a porphyroclastic texture. Note the bimodal grain size distribution of the olivines with large subhedral porphyroclasts and smaller relatively euhedral neoblasts in the matrix.

#xenolith #peridotite #geology ##geoscience #olivine

Dunite xenoliths in picrite, Koʻolau. Due to their high density and low viscosity, picrites are the only tholeiitic melts that can carry ultramafic xenoliths to the surface. In Hawaiʻi, these are usually crustal cumulates of tholeiitic affinity.

#xenolith #dunite #geology #geoscience #picrite

Back on Oʻahu and Big Island in late January and super excited to get to (re)visit mantle and crustal xenoliths of the Koʻolau Honolulu Volcanics as well as those of Hualālai, Mauna Kea, and unusual Mauna Loa ultramafic mantle xenoliths hosted by tholeiitic basalt.

#xenolith #peridotite #geology

Kilbourne Hole peridotite mantle xenolith with area of dark orthopyroxene crystals formed via the rock-melt reaction MG2Si04 + Si02 → 2MgSi03. Part of a complex history involving rock-melt interaction, refertilization, and multiple metasomatic events.

#xenolith #peridotite #pyroxene #orthopyroxene

Chibis of Disgaea characters in front of a bakery box referencing the Disgaea collaboration with Honey & Butter. Chibi Laharl is laughing at the very top of the box. Chibi Fuji and Valvatorez are presenting their food to the audience while Flonne is in the middle happily. Xenolith is at the left side a little behind the box looking at everyone else.

I started some chibis of my favorite Disgaea characters around halloween. But I never got around to finishing a whole batch till now! I very much treasure these goobers (❁´◡`❁)

Disgaea (c) Nippon Ichi Software
#disgaea #valvatorez #fuji #laharl #flonne #xenolith #chibis #doodliart

Spinel lherzolite mantle xenolith hosted by phonotephrite (collected with permission)

San Carlos Volcanic Field, San Carlos Apache Reservation, Arizona

#peridotite #xenolith #lherzolite #geology #geoscience #volcano

Olivine is my second fav mineral after pyropic garnet and am super loving this forsteritic olivine ring. Peridotite xenolith in phonotephrite is from the classic location of the San Carlos volcanic field.

#olivine #xenolith #peridotite

Spinel peridotite mantle xenolith and accidental fragment of Koʻolau. Basalt (note the plag phenocrysts) hosted in melilite nephelinite tuff.

Moanalua vent, Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#geoscience #geology #volcanology #volcano #mantle #xenolith #spinel #peridotite #Hawaii

Peridotite mantle xenolith hosted by basanite
Nuʻuanu Pali vent (640-600 ka), Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

Collection of @volcanoesinthesea.bsky.social

#peridotite #xenolith #geology #geoscience #volcano

This is one of the dykes found near Ayer's Cliff, just SE of Magog, Quebec. It's a set of three dykes, one of which has the deep-derived xenoliths. That one dyke has weathered much faster, perhaps due to a higher carbonate content.
#kyanite #MinCup25 #Quebec #Xenolith #Grenville #Appalachians

Olivine websterite (?) xenolith
A recent study suggests a mantle origin for olivines in cumulate ultramafic xenoliths of Hualālai's Kaʻūpūlehu Flow Field.

#geoscience #geology #hualālai #volcanology #volcano #xenolith #xenolith #websterite #pyroxenite

Peridotite and clinopyroxenite mantle xenoliths
Moanalua vent, Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#geoscience #geology #dunite #volcanology #volcano #mantle #xenolith #xenocryst #peridotite #Hawaii #pyroxenite

Strange #clinopyroxenite mantle #xenolith hosted by rejuvenation-stage #Kauaʻi Kōloa Volcanics nephelinite(?). Unlike Oʻahu Honolulu Volcanics lavas for which carbonatite metasomatism in their petrogenesis is debatable, evidence is more robust for Kōloa.

#pyroxenite #volcano #geology #geoscience

Clinopyroxenite and dunite xenoliths
Kolekole Member of the Waiʻanae Volcanics
Waiʻanae, Oʻahu

#xenolith #clinopyroxenite #pyroxenite #volcano #geology #geoscience #dunite #peridotite

Peridotite (dunite) mantle xenolith and clinopyroxene xenocrysts hosted in melilite nephelinite tuff.
Moanalua vent, Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#geoscience #geology #dunite #volcanology #volcano #mantle #xenolith #xenocryst #peridotite #Hawaii #clinopyroxene

Clinopyroxenite xenolith
Kolekole Member of the Waiʻanae Volcanics
Waiʻanae, Oʻahu

#xenolith #clinopyroxenite #pyroxenite #volcano #geology #geoscience

Sharing about a clinopyroxenite xenolith hosted by Kolekole Member of the Waiʻanae Volcanics basalt at the Hui Pōhaku. An unusual case of ultramafic xenoliths hosted by a tholeiite.

#pyroxenite #Hawaiʻi #waiʻanae #gelology #xenolith #geoscience

Rare composite #peridotite - #pyroxenite xenolith may have formed via opx assimilation and most likely not one-time suggested kimberlitic veining underneath Oʻahu...which shouldn't even be possible with oceanic lithosphere. Āliamanu, Honolulu Volcanics, Oʻahu.

#geoscience #geology #xenolith

Gorgeous spinel peridotite mantle xenolith hosted in melilite nephelinite tuff. Xenoliths from these vents encompass all the metamorphic textures.
Moanalua vent, Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#geoscience #geology #volcanology #volcano #mantle #xenolith #spinel #peridotite #Hawaii

Garnet Pyroxenite Mantle Xenoliths hosted in melilite nephelinite tuff
Āliamanu-Moanalua vents, Honolulu Volcanics, Koʻolau, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

#geoscience #geology #volcanology #volcano #xenolith #garnet #pyroxenite #mantle #garnetpyroxenite #tuff #HonoluluVolcanics #Hawaiʻi