Mark Brandriss
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Mark Brandriss
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Geologist, bird enthusiast
Here's another one, but in this case the xenolith of peridotite smushed the anorthosite xenolith underneath it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fun igneous geology: here's a rigid xenolith of peridotite in gabbro, with a less rigid xenolith of anorthosite that was smushed on top of it as the mushy pile of partially molten gabbro compacted under its own weight. On Sgurr na Stri, Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands.
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Why suffer the embarrassment of answering tough questions in public when the Washington Post will invite you to write whatever you want in their newspaper?
August 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Great photos, great outcrops! Here are a couple more from probably the same set of roadcuts. I was birdwatching last April but had to stop for the rocks.
November 27, 2024 at 2:03 AM
I'm curious because the ice structures resemble those downstream from an icefall on the Gilkey Glacier in the Juneau Icefield, but the Gilkey lacks the prominent arc of rocky debris in your photo of Grand Plateau Glacier.
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Matt Bors, for example. Elon really, really doesn't want me to hear from Matt Bors. I wonder why?
November 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM