Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Coloriferous Anorthosite...

From Oklahoma ~1972. Long time to carry a rock baby around with me. In real life, the color are rather dark and drab, but light it up in a scanner and it's showing off all the reasons why labradorite is so very wondrous. The plagioclase has a real knack with internal reflections.
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A worm with an attitude!

This, perhaps, is a structural geologist's worst nightmare -- a fossil with a directional indicator. Now it LOOKS like a flatworm. Worms don't normally leave fossils, since they have no skeletal parts that can fossilize, but this is a rare exception. It may not have been a flat worm when it started, but being buried in a rock layer by very heavy strata would make anyone very flat.
Anyway -- this is from my USA days, but can't remember where.
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