monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Nov 22, 2016 6:24:41 GMT -5
Just wanted to show the latest addition to my rapidly growing collection. In Danish it's called Västervik-plet-sten translated to something like Västervik-spot-Stone and yes we scandinavians truly understand giving our rocks cool names😂 Västervik is the city/area in sweden where it comes from. It consist of the same materials as gneiss but there has been no forces to move it or pressure it. Instead it was formed under enormus heat and the Quartz and feldspar has melted together creating the light red layer and the darker Minerals has melted and gatherd into spots. Sorry for the poor explanation but couldn't find and english info I could link to. Normally I leave 8 pound on the Beach but this one was worth dragging home😀
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 22, 2016 7:56:03 GMT -5
Nice! I like that black and red look.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2016 10:44:48 GMT -5
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Nov 22, 2016 12:52:18 GMT -5
Looks excatly the same as our granite, but did you tumble these?? If you did please tell the secret, because they look really crap when I tumble granite and I only cab granite now but would love to tumble some granite again
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2016 13:24:47 GMT -5
Looks excatly the same as our granite, but did you tumble these?? If you did please tell the secret, because they look really crap when I tumble granite and I only cab granite now but would love to tumble some granite again DO NOT tumble granite. Gneiss is easier and some gneiss will tumble very nice. Granite and tumblers do not work lol. The felspar is too much softer than the quartz component, simple as that. I have been in Almhults Bruk Sweden on several occasions. Love Scandinavia. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. You are so fortunate. PS The Norwegians and the Swedes are always teasing each other. They say to the other "You make a coffee cup with the handle on the inside of the cup".
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 22, 2016 15:18:37 GMT -5
Nice Gneiss! Sorry, I could not resist *L*. Like the color combination....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 16:05:42 GMT -5
::face palm::
Handle inside the cup?
Sigh.....
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Post by metalsmith on Nov 22, 2016 16:10:23 GMT -5
I believe these are Sanidinite facies with migmatite inclusions - see link for a good stab at translation. There's a Pressure Temperature diagram here where Sanidinite can be seen in the bottom right hand corner. Cool rocks by the way!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Nov 22, 2016 17:31:08 GMT -5
Looks excatly the same as our granite, but did you tumble these?? If you did please tell the secret, because they look really crap when I tumble granite and I only cab granite now but would love to tumble some granite again DO NOT tumble granite. Gneiss is easier and some gneiss will tumble very nice. Granite and tumblers do not work lol. The felspar is too much softer than the quartz component, simple as that. I have been in Almhults Bruk Sweden on several occasions. Love Scandinavia. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. You are so fortunate. PS The Norwegians and the Swedes are always teasing each other. They say to the other "You make a coffee cup with the handle on the inside of the cup". MUST NOT TUMBLE GRANITE😄 I know but it would be great if possible. Yeah there is Always an "intern" battel between Denmark - Norway - Sweden. I work in a scandinavian Company so I have both Swedish and norweigan colleagues (no spell check) so every Day is a battel to see who can dish eachothers the most😃 I'm not into sports that much but big sportsevents are the worst. I'm lucky that i get to travel to both sweden and Norway often in relation to work and I truly enjoy what both the contries have to offer (nature most - not the food that much)
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Nov 22, 2016 17:33:56 GMT -5
I believe these are Sanidinite facies with migmatite inclusions - see link for a good stab at translation. There's a Pressure Temperature diagram here where Sanidinite can be seen in the bottom right hand corner. Cool rocks by the way! That is excatly the right one and even the same page I use for ID. Didn't realize that it also was in english.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 22, 2016 17:44:39 GMT -5
That's a really interesting rock! I like the colors.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2016 18:19:01 GMT -5
Funny thing, neither liked the Finn.
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Post by monna0000 on Nov 22, 2016 19:21:28 GMT -5
Funny thing, neither liked the Finn. Denmark, sweden and Norway are like a sibling relation, the Finn's are just to far away from us in so many ways.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2016 19:47:38 GMT -5
We had dinner in a sauna. Vodka. We were naked. Ladies served us. Then those guys went outside(December) and broke a hole in the ice on the hotel swimming pool. We all jumped in-straight from the sauna. Again, naked.
One of the men was a Finn. The Swedes did not trust him.
I would take them out on the town when they came to the States. Some of the Norwegians liked to get into fights. And change clothes in public at my swinging singles apartment swimming pool. Nakedness was no concern to them.
They were fun people.
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Post by vegasjames on Nov 22, 2016 20:31:05 GMT -5
Nice looking rock. Looks like it would make nice knife scales.
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Post by metalsmith on Nov 23, 2016 1:58:42 GMT -5
I believe these are Sanidinite facies with migmatite inclusions - see link for a good stab at translation. There's a Pressure Temperature diagram here where Sanidinite can be seen in the bottom right hand corner. Cool rocks by the way! That is excatly the right one and even the same page I use for ID. Didn't realize that it also was in english. It's not - Google translate completed the translation, except for some words such as zirkonkrystaller - zircon crystals; migmatitiske - migmatites; kvartsitten or kvartsitter - quartzite don't take too much imagination. However, neither it, nor I could translate: - bjerarter = subspecies?
- krydslejring = cross-bedding?
- lertilblanding - I'm a bit stumped on this ... melt boundaries?
Anyone ...
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