Out looking at metamorphic rocks on the south coast of Mull last week. We weren't expecting an ostrich! 🤯 🤩 😁 #Pareidolia #ThingsThatLookLikeOtherThings #Mull #Ostrich #Moine #Metamorphic

Fabulous spring weather in Mull just now. ☀️ Here's a picture of the extreme south end of the Hebridean Craton: Lewisian rocks on on a wee island off Iona, which I visited for the first time this week 🤩 🥰 🤓 😎 Greenland and Canada in the distance 😁 #Geology #Lewisian #Metamorphic

#DogWalkingGeology Spud is admiring this lovely shingle-polished outcrop of Moine schist on the beach at Ardalanish, Mull. #Metamorphic #Mull

The GEOROC Database (Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents)
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https://georoc.eu/georoc/new-start.asp <-- shared link to GEOROC resource
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“The GEOROC Database (Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents) is a comprehensive collection of published analyses of igneous and metamorphic rocks and minerals. It contains major and trace element concentrations, radiogenic and nonradiogenic isotope ratios as well as analytical ages for whole rocks, glasses, minerals and inclusions. Metadata include geospatial and other sample information, analytical details and references….
Current content of GEOROC:
• 22,750 papers
• 685,660 samples
• 2,680,100 analyses
• 39,334,100 single data values…”
#opendata #geology #geoscience #GEOROC #database #global #igneous #metamorphic #rocks #minerals #geochemistry #results #analyses #published #metadata #spatial #GIS #mapping #papers #samples #datavalues

#DogWalkingGeology A #LifeGoal achieved 🎆🕺🎉💃 Kyanite gneisses occur in the Mull Moine rocks, but I have *never* found a beach pebble of these rocks, despite searching intensely, until THIS MORNING. A very tasty cobble 😋 #Geology #Metamorphic #Mull

#ThinSectionThursday #MinCup24 It's kyanite for me! Rocks with kyanite are *always* good rocks 🤩🥰 Here's some nice bent and twinned kyanite crystals in a high-pressure granulite-facies gneiss from the Lewisian complex in South Harris. Field of view about 2mm across. More info in Alt text. #Geology #Kyanite #Lewisian #Metasediment #Metamorphic @MineralCup

#ThinSectionThursday Beautiful symplectite coronas around pink (black) garnets in this garnet-clinopyroxene-amphibole-plagioclase-scapolite gneiss from the Lewisian complex in South Harris. Field of view ca. 2mm wide. #Geology #Metamorphic #Microscopy #Texture

#ThinSectionThursday Raspberry pink-to-yellow plechroic piemontite, with pale pink muscovite mica, small, clear stand-out spessartine garnets, and blandly clear quartz, in this strange Moine metasediment from Strathconon in northern Scotland. Field of view about 2mm across. The second pic shows the same view between crossed polars, showing wonderfully bright birefringence colours. More info in Alt text of images. #Geology #Metamorphic #Manganese #Mineralogy #Moine