 |
 Indicate links to my own research. Indicate links to non-Rob research. |
| Comments are usually appreciated. | Links checked in October 2005 |
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Indicate links to my own research. Indicate links to non-Rob research. |
| Comments are usually appreciated. | Links checked in October 2005 |
Granite for beginners...definitions and such
"Stone Quarries and Beyond" is an excellent guide to quarries and building stones. The site is well designed, and extensively researched. It can answer many of your questions.
The Llano Uplift
An exposure of Proterozoic rocks in central Texas, of which almost 50% are granites. I've made an attempt to explain it's origin.
The L.U. is where I did my dissertation.
or skip the non-granite stuff and go to:
The Town Mountain Granite
Some granite images for your perusal.
Do you have to be named "Rob" to put stuff on the Web about the geology of the Llano Uplift? Maybe not, but Rob Wilkes and Jean Hackett discuss the famous Baringer Hill Pegmatite.
A beginners look at how a granite batholith develops
Granite in Cornwall
Granite (and more and moor) in Dartmoor
Several granite images are also available from the University of Indiana at Fort Wayne.
A nice discussion of some California geology (Pt. Reyes), including granitic rocks
Some views of granitoid rocks in the Yosemite Valley
Ancient Egyptian Quarry Sites, including some granite information
List of links to other people's granite images
Next time I'm in Colorado I should go see this place. I'd rather not pay though.
Stone Mountain is a great exposure in Georgia that I have visited. If you watched the bicycle racing at the Atlanta Olympics, the big rock mass behind the velodrome was Stone Mountain.
Cooper mining (from the world's biggest hole) in granitoid rocks of eastern Arizona
(been there, done that, didn't like the t-shirts)
Commercial Dimension [Building] Stone Companies
This is a good place to look for answers to questions about polished granite care, monuments, and commercial granite sales.
The quarries of Cape Ann, Ma (original locale for Annite) and Halibut Point State Park
The Rincon de la Vieja Volcano of Costa Rica.
Question: How many Aggies does it take to make a Big Bend Web site?
Answer: take a look
Yahoo Geology Site
In my opinion, every serious earth scientist should at least scan the information on this page.
Geology E-Mail Groups
No granite, but someplace for the lesser geologists to go
Acknowledgments
Turn down the brightness on your monitor, it's the Probe Image of the Week from the probe gnomes at UMass....
The Rob's granite page Hall of Shame;
sites that don't make it.......
There may be dangers in long term examination of granite....of course I could E-mail this guy and tell him that "Academy Black" is actually a gabbro, but that might mess up his meter or rhymes or something.
East Texas Sandstone Outcrop, and of course the Aggies don't even show an image of the sandstone, just a bunch of dumb flowers.
more to follow....unfortunately.