Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.
Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.
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Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.
Piemontite in phengite-carbonate schist, Lago di Cignana, N. Italy.
#thinsectionthursday
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.
#thinsectionthursday
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.
15.01.2026 03:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
16.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This 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.
22.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tucson AZ
3’ x 5’ Flag of Greenland 🇬🇱
Malicious compliance. Someone was ordered to write an anti-ICE message, and did just that.
24.09.2025 17:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
14.09.2025 01:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Her native tongue is Forked.
24.08.2025 02:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saharan dust also provides much of the phosphorus budget of the Amazon basin.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
Cordyceps
06.08.2025 06:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Umm… it’s probably not his *name* being raised in some files that’s the wee problem here…
23.07.2025 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s not Dijon with only yellow mustard.
09.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I thought it would be Chernobyl
19.02.2025 20:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0President is not in line to become President. First in line is VP, and so on.
04.01.2025 03:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Johnson is 2nd *in line*, Harris snd eventually Vance are 1st.
04.01.2025 02:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03rd *in line*
04.01.2025 02:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Red sprites are real but those images aren’t.
02.01.2025 00:51 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
“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/