Monday, May 18, 2009

Gneiss!



Splotchy started it with Feldspar!. These bloggers continued it:
Bubs: Zircon!
Samurai Frog: Pyrite!
MNMom: Hematite!
Lockwood: Orthoclase!
Bailey's Buddy: Chalcopyrite!

Join in on the rockin' mineral fun!

9 comments:

  1. That is some wicked cool gneiss you got there.

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  2. Whoa. That IS gneiss...

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  3. Best I ever saw ... thanks for the opportunity! Reminds me of years ago when Bunny Lady was taking a college geology class ... she laid awake at night with this tray of samples, memorizing them.

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  4. Splotch--it's nice gneiss.

    Patrick--thank you!

    Susan--put it on your bloggy if you want to play!

    Rabbits' Guy--Neato. I wish I'd taken geology! I love rocks.

    Nina--Nice!

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  5. @Susan- one of the first lessons an aspiring geologist needs to learn is not to take gneiss for granite.

    @dguzman- thanks for the kind comment and the great rock.

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  6. Lockwood--OUCH, that pun went over like a lead balloon.

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  7. Very cool! Where from?

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