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  1. #Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!

    Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.

    Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
    #MInCup23 #Granulite

  2. and are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!

    Next year is the year of . Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.

    Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!

  3. #Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!

    Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.

    Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
    #MInCup23 #Granulite

  4. #Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!

    Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.

    Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
    #MInCup23 #Granulite

  5. #Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!

    Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.

    Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
    #MInCup23 #Granulite

  6. growth at high temperatures can help define the path high pressure eclogite facies rocks take to the surface. Sapphirine forming at point "C" and below helps determine that these samples rose 30 km in the crust (16 to 6 kbar) while only cooling a bit over 100°.

    NE Caledonides work of Synnøve Elvevold (Norwegian Polar Institute, ) and Jane Gilotti ()

  7. @silicatefondue @jolyon This specimen of #sapphirine with phlogopite from Fiskenaesset, Greenland was given by Giesecke himself to the Scottish mineralogist and collector, Thomas Brown (1774-1853). His collections are mostly in the #Hunterian museum, University of Glasgow. gla.ac.uk/collections/#/detail