Tag: pegmatite
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 …
Posted on January 19, 2013
Clues from Crystals
A bright sapphire dangling from a gold chain glistens in the stage lights as the woman wearing the necklace begins to sing. There is a constant dripping sound that breaks the silence in a dark cavern in South America …
