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Fred Gaidies
@fredgaidies.bsky.social
Professor of mineralogy and metamorphic petrology | Department of Earth Sciences | Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) | 🇩🇪🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 | he/him/his
https://www.teamgar.net/fred-gaidies
Interested in the transport properties and crystallization mechanisms of metamorphic rocks? @mtyogi.bsky.social will talk about it today at #AGU24 (Session V24B, room 207 A)!
December 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Some crystal “flowers” for #ThinSectionThursday.

These are microphotographs (PPL) of texturally sector-zoned garnets (!) from the incredible collection of Hugh Rice (Vienna).
December 5, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Who knows what these porphyroblasts are? Hint: It’s a rock from the Bugaboo contact aureole (SE British Columbia)

#ThinSectionThursday
November 21, 2024 at 5:14 PM
With the winter (too) quickly approaching, here some impressions of our field trip to the Central Alps this summer..
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November 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM