Running the FRANTZ to magnetically separate the garnet from my sample, all the stuff falling out is the less magnetic amphibole. For anyone curious I’m dating the Syros monolith
Fluorite - Schacht 78 Mine, Frohnau, Annaberg, Saxony, Germany
2020: Sequence of Little Blowhole operating. This blowhole was formed from a column dropping out in the Blow Hole Latite, the basal member of the Gerringong Volcanics (late Permian).
Wtf does modern interior design have against back support
This account has been sharing old videos of the many decades of lava flows on Kilauea. Often that volcano will wake up after only a few months of inactivity when it does go quiet, so it probably won’t be long before they get new footage.
Here’s an incredible lava breakout. A crust of pahoehoe is fractured by the pressure of the lava behind it, and the lava spills out onto the surface. Watch how some of the other still-soft rocks nearby flex downwards as the new lava moves on top of them. Also watch how the videographer slowly retreats…
epiclava_
Break on through…
Phlogopite and quartz
Scientists at the University of Minnesota put 3D glasses on cuttlefish, who then used stereo data to place themselves at a consistent distance from the illusionary expected 3D location of the prey.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
“Did I not say that you would be a burden? That you would not survive in the wild? That you had no place amongst us?”
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