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Granite comparison
The Early Cambrian Wichita Granite Group of southwestern Oklahoma is exposed as a dozen shallowly-emplaced sheet plutons that exhibit...
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Mapping at high resolution
Geologic mapping has been a traditional tool of Earth science; the distribution of exposed rock types provides a key constraint to any...
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Which pluton are you?
The Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma exposes the products Cambrian rift magmatism. The bulk of the felsic rocks represent a...
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Granite on the margins
Magmas intrude the shallow crust by opening fractures, known as dikes. The photo shows a granitic dike cutting gabbroic rocks, in the...
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Bismuth analogs for microstructure
Undergraduate research and EURECA student, Jared Steger, has grown bismuth crystals for use in a study on rock microstructure. Jared...