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Garnet porphyroblasts may be seen in the metamorphosed Castner Marble exposed in the eastern Franklin Mountains north of El Paso, Texas.
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Scale at top is in centimeters.
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This is a 125 lb barton garnet that my family purchased in the Adirondacks. It currently resideds in the rock garden in my backyard.
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A Brazilian granite known as "Minsk Green." Tthis sample features graphic granite, euhedral quartz, garnet, and more. Sample measures 30 cm on a side. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College's gigamacro rig, as seen here: gig
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Sand from Calvert Cliffs State Park, MD. Featuring ilmenite, quartz, garnet, magentite, rutile, and zircon. The petri dish is 9 cm in diameter. Sample provided by Siim Sepp of sandatlas.org. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College'...
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Teeming with garnets big and small, fresh and weathered, the Setters Schist is a muscovite schist metamorphosed from a pelitic protolith in (presumably) the Taconian orogeny. It also features staurolite, which is present in this sample, and kyanite, which isn't. Sample collected in Sparks, MD. Image made as part ...
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Large garnet porphyroblast from the Goshen Dome, Massachsusetts. Field of view is approximately 15 by 20 mm
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Field of view is approximatly 15 by 20 mm. Crossed polars. Image is a garnet-chloritoid schist from Jamaica, Vermont. Large porphyroblast of garnet (nearly opaque) contains gently curved inclusion trail of chloritoid. Chloritoid is appears as shades of gray. Well developed crenulation cleavage in right third and lower ...
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Field of view is approximatly 15 by 20 mm. Image is a garnet-chloritoid schist from Jamaica, Vermont. Large porphyroblast of garnet contains gently curved inclusion trail of chloritoid. Pleochroic chloritoid is blue, green, and yellow. Well developed crenulation cleavage in right third and lower left corner of image. ...
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Gravel in gravel road just off of Rockwell Church Road in Winder, GA.
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