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Some groovy goats in Ingonish:

Incredible beach of watermelon-sized and -shaped boulders of pink granite near Green Cove in Cape Breton Highlands National Park: "The World's Largest Rock Tumbler!" ⚒️

"I like big feldspars and I cannot lie." Pegmatite on the edge of Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. ⚒️

Yes - this is the correct way to conceptualize it

New video looking at a couple of sites near Halifax, Nova Scotia - insights into the Meguma Terrane: youtu.be/5TzYcFFHEP8?... ⚒️

It was so great --- way exceeded expectations!

Glacial striations on a metavolcanic boulder, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. ⚒️

I had forgotten what torture blackfly bites are. I got one between my fingers three days ago, and it's still itchy swollen agony.

"Chocolate tablet" boudinage, maybe?

Interesting stripey pattern in the mineral material making up a vein in a rock I saw yesterday ⚒️

Cape Breton ruby fluoresces under UV light. ⚒️

Gabbroic dikes cutting metaignimbeite, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. ⚒️

How did you know I was on a volcano in Canada today?

More Joggins Fossil stems, large and small. ⚒️

Here's the reconstruction at the Fundy Geological Museum for comparison: ⚒️

Hylonomus lyelli, oldest reptile known from the fossil record -- found INSIDE hollow tree trunk fossils at Joggins Fossil Cliffs. ⚒️

Nature really seems to like this vacuum???

Got my first glimpse of PEI across the strait today from Amherst Shore Provincial Park. ⚒️

Joggins is in northern/eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. jogginsfossilcliffs.net

Avoid extinction; wash your hands!