A piece of the rock
Here's an image of my new countertop, inaccurately described by the realtor as "granite":
It's not felsic, so it can't really be granite, but I'm cool with that. This is the countertop of my kitchen "island" in the new condominium that I spent the past week moving into. For the first time in my life, I'm a homeowner...
...Whoa*.
That's why it's been so quiet around here recently. But... got the internet hooked up today, so I should be back to geoblogging regularly soon.
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* You'll recall that buying a home was one of my resolutions for this year.
It's not felsic, so it can't really be granite, but I'm cool with that. This is the countertop of my kitchen "island" in the new condominium that I spent the past week moving into. For the first time in my life, I'm a homeowner...
...Whoa*.
That's why it's been so quiet around here recently. But... got the internet hooked up today, so I should be back to geoblogging regularly soon.
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* You'll recall that buying a home was one of my resolutions for this year.
3 Comments:
Looks like a diabase to me. Architectural stone geology is pretty amazing... the lumpers have completely banished the splitters from that business. They have two rock classifications: granite and marble. If it has swirly patterns, it's marble. Otherwise it's granite.
You got enough hornblende and plagioclase on that countertop that you could do a helluva P-T study of the thing. You could be the only person in the neighborhood to know the depth of crystallization of your counter.
Congratulations on the home buying. I thought any "rock" in a kitchen is "granite". I am always in trouble when I tell friends that no...they do not have granite counter tops.
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