Tag: granite
Updated on December 2, 2016
Quickly Cooling Crystals
The bright morning sun glistened off the different colored rock crystals, all squeezed together into a block of granite rock. “Oh look! There’s schist, and I think that’s pegmatite!” I declared, delightedly leaning as close as I could …
Updated on April 21, 2016
Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains
Inching my way across the steeply tilted rock, I grabbed the top edge to keep myself steady. The rock felt very rough and sharp. By the end of the day, I had sore, red palms and scratched, bloody …
Posted on January 30, 2015
Underground Rocks
I tightened my grip on the raft as a sudden splash of icy brown water made me shiver in spite of the Arizona afternoon sunshine. The light gleamed off the shiny black rock columns towering up the deep …
Posted on October 13, 2013
Grand Canyon: Granite Rocks
As a geology student I love to look at, touch, and think about rocks. However, I am afraid that I do not love all kinds of rocks equally. My least favorite rocks are the ones that look like …
Posted on January 5, 2013
Granite’s Captive
A thin metal tower holds a drilling rig as it is guided down to a depth of down to 2.6 miles bellow the surface at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. At this depth, the temperature reaches 595 degrees (F), and …
Posted on December 15, 2012
Radical Radiohalos
The depth and beauty of the granite countertop of the ice cream shop intrigued me as I slowly enjoyed my cone. There were grey, white, clear, and light pink specks, which I knew to be quartz, peachy colored …
Posted on July 12, 2012
Glorious Granite
Granite is truly a marvelous rock. Its speckled beauty in and of itself is quite stunning, but there is so much more to its beauty than just its appearance. When people think of granite, they usually think of …
