Igneous Gallery

limaticart thesezag ren making everyone hot chocol cock pulsing inside of you rita-ora-in-clash-magazine-pho
Fingal’s Cave, ScotlandScientists and geology students alike flock to this cave to study i
Scandinavian CrustThis is an absolutely spectacular shot of several stages of crust formation from K
Look, down there, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…thousand kilometer pile
Remnant of a plumeCanada is some of the oldest continental crust on Earth, with provinces that are w
THE COLUMNAR COAST OF TASMANIAThe dolerites of Tasmania are remnants of Gondwana, a “super con
c6h14nightmares:OminousDolerite sea cave in the coast of Bruny Island, Tasmania. 
azvolrien:Hello, it’s time for Rock Facts.What you’re looking at in these photos is call
Thedark coloured rock is a sedimentary rock and the bright coloured rock is anigneous rock (used to
luna-and-mars:Guess what I’m up to? :DTaking petrology this semester, which means lots of thin
anywhereinafrica:A pegmatite sheet cutting across a Neoproterozoic gabbro. Mafic rocks in Turkana ar
Marine mineralsLike a clump of sea urchins lurking in a coral cavelet, beautiful sprays of the zeoli
Pumice is way too fun.In 1912, a volcano named Mount Katmai unleashed the largest eruption of the 20
Pre-PopoPopocatépetl volcano seen here from the north is the second highest peak in Mexico. I
nothingelsematters79:Granite - Variation on a themeI think this is the countertop definition of gran
mineralsandsomerocks:Olivine in Plane Polarized (left) and Cross Polarized (right) LightThe amount o
On top of Mt. WhitneyMt. Whitney, the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, appears in t
geologicaltravels:2016: Miocene dyking in late Cretaceous flysch deposits of Torres Del Paine NP in
Martian Meteorite Unlocking Secrets of the Red PlanetA meteorite that landed in Morocco in July 2011
Yr Arddu, North Wales.When people discuss volcanism they usually refer to the large spectacular erup
La Cueva de los VerdesThe Canary Islands are a clump of volcanoes poking out of the sea, with all th
Graphic graniteThis fascinating looking rock is a type of igneous rock containing intergrowths of qu
Fire Under the OceanI never considered the SpongeBob SquarePants (an American cartoon) connection wh
Orbicular graniteWe recently shared a photo of a Rapakivi granite, which contains grains of pinkish
msp-j:大朝日岳　　左・中ツル尾根　左奥・御影森山への稜線　　小朝日岳よりEast face of Mt. O-Asahi-dake, the highest in the granitic As
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