[Rockhounds] giant garnets and massive kyanite photos

[DonH]

Lanny wrote:

>> http://mysite.verizon.net/resqkdq4/z-easy-garnets.jpg
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Ask and you shall receive.  If you look carefully, these have two zones: 
a rounded, crumbly outer core that is not in equilibrium with the host 
rock, and a perfectly euhedral inner core of opaque but usually 
crisp-faced garnet, up to 3-4 cm, but usually 1-3 cm.  These could be 
used in crystallography class to teach morphology.  They look faceted. 
The outcrop is found in a thickly grown section of forest, up a hill 
about 30-40 meters.  Frankly I don't know how the professor knew where 
to stop.

But then again, on the trail up to the top of Goat Mtn., the kyanite-in 
isograd appears, and small white kyanites are found.  A prize is given 
to the first student who finds a kyanite and IDs the gradient where it 
appears.  As we are told later, there is also a K carved into a tree to 
mark the spot.

Don