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Gigapans

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  1. Blueschist bearing porphyroblasts of the amphiobole glaucophane, the mineral that gives blueschist its blue color. Sample was collected in Turkey's Tavşanlı Zone, a subduction zone complex that formed as the Tethys Ocean closed. These rocks were dunked to around 80 km depth (precipitating the metamorphic reaction tha...