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Transition rock showing fenitized gneiss adjacent to chilled margin of carbonatite magmatic intrusion. Fenite. Type locality...

It's been cloudy for the past week and will be cloudy again for another; in between was one clear night spent imaging a somewhat-tight...

I'm out of the office for a few weeks, so I have to reach into the back catalog for a few weeks: Juvite. Type locality: Juvet, Fen...

Mid December Balboa Park trip. I took the city bus again. Figure 1. Park Blvd. bus stop. I was waiting at the bus stop on the other...

Back in the 1970's I spent a January in a small student apartment in Cambridge, Mass. Just a few blocks from the NECCo "factory."...

That's a really cool photo, I think! 🙂

Last night was the first clear night in a while- I had a chance to image Jupiter @ 800mm: From the top, a stacked image of 40 subs...

Another carbonatite margin: Carbonatite, Fen complex. Right side is carbonatite; equigranular subhedral grains of calcite, massed...

Annual pre-christmas trip to b. a. Sweetie Candy Company, a candy warehouse: They have all the PEZ (even @ 15mm there's too much to...

Carbonatite, Fen complex. The Fen Complex experienced pluri-metasomatic processes consisting of at least two main phases of...

Carbonatite, Fen complex. This sample displays a transition from, on one side carbonatite, then, moving from left to right, an apparent...

Carbonatite, Fen Complex. This sample could be classified as Alvikite, but the real interest I have is in the bands of color that...

Really excellent photos- both compositionally and technically (exposure, etc)- thanks for posting!

Another altered carbonatite: Altered carbonatite. A veinlet of carbonatite intrudes into an existing carbonatite pluton, bisecting a...

Yes, but the amount of energy radiated by the wire will be much lower than the sun. The amount of energy you need to absorb to protect...