#ophiolite — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ophiolite, aggregated by home.social.
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The Edge of the World
Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault, where Laurentia met Avalonia back in the Caledonian Orogeny.
Awesome rockery - pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist, all kinds of mangled rock. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland.
#ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #landscape
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The Edge of the World
Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault, where Laurentia met Avalonia back in the Caledonian Orogeny.
Awesome rockery - pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist, all kinds of mangled rock. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland.
#ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #landscape
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The Edge of the World
Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault, where Laurentia met Avalonia back in the Caledonian Orogeny.
Awesome rockery - pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist, all kinds of mangled rock. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland.
#ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #landscape
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The Edge of the World
Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault, where Laurentia met Avalonia back in the Caledonian Orogeny.
Awesome rockery - pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist, all kinds of mangled rock. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland.
#ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #landscape
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The Edge of the World
Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault, where Laurentia met Avalonia back in the Caledonian Orogeny.
Awesome rockery - pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist, all kinds of mangled rock. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland.
#ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #landscape
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Quite a bit of #Chrysotile was extracted from the Jeffrey Mine, Quebec. It is located on a line of oceanic lithosphere attached to North America during the growth of the Appalachians.
The town of Asbestos, home of the mine, has been renamed 'Val-des-Sources'.
Much of the expense of renovating buildings in Quebec is the cost of removing the asbestos insulation.
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Droneybird explorations around the Southern Uplands Fault.
Years ago I used to drive the A77 through Ayrshire and just knew there was _something_ interesting about the landscape. Only recently have I learned that the collision and subduction associated with the Iapetus Ocean's closure during the Caledonian Orogeny (~420Mya) caused the emplacement of the Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex.
#geology #scotland #ophiolite #ballantrae #southernuplandfault #iapetus #drone #photography #ophiolite #ayrshire