this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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Cool Rocks

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Minerals are cool, too.

Be gneiss to each other

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edit1: Some more photos of this selfsame rock through a micro scope (somewhere between 10x and 45x, didn't write it down)

and another feature I discovered: the rock has a slickenside which i can't really show on a photo. basically one of the sides is beat up into sand and polished. the whole rock unit was pretty beat up, so i'm not super suprised but it's cool

edit2: ok i tried to capture the slickenside

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[–] Cuzscience@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Old petrology pun: I may be gneiss, but don’t take me for granite.