Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Countertop geology: sheared granite

Today's countertop geology was brought to you by friends in Queensland. They have the most lovely granite table on their verandah and the fed me delicious Canadian breakfast foods while I took these photos.

This granite has been sheared and the phenocrysts are surrounded by almost sigma-shaped matrix. The picture below shows a grain that is probably at right angles to shear direction and as such hasn't rotated like some of the others.



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