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Bar Island Bar

Bar Island Bar | 2016 | Gemma Venuti

These landforms are created when glaciers move over land shearing off material from the side of the land form they move over first and plucking material off the side they leave.

Roche moutonnee

Veiw from the Bar Harbor Shore Path | 2014 | Sarah Hall 

These landforms are created when glaciers move over land shearing off material from the side of the land form they move over first and plucking material off the side they leave.

U-Shaped Valley

Park Loop Road Acadia National Park | 5.21.16 | Gemma Venuti 

U-Shaped valleys on MDI are a clue to this island's glacial past. As glaciars miles high made their way across the land they eroded and weathered the ground beneath them into the shapes we see today.

COA Beach

COA Beach | Winter 2016 | Gemma Venuti 

The College of the Atlantic Beach is made of pebbles and rocky outcrops. The out crop on the left is comprised of the Bar Harbor Formation which is a meta sedimentary rock. The one on the right is a Gabbro-diorite intrusion covered in crecentic fractures.

Glacial Polish

Cadillac Mountain | 11.11.14 | Gemma Venuti

Glaciers carrying rough material like sand and pebbles polish rocks by moving over them and grinding their surfaces.

Glacial Erratic

Bar Harbor Shore Path | 10.9.14 | Alba Mar Rodriguez

Large rocks carried by glaciers from one location to another. They are usually not the same type of rock as the local bedrock.

Basalt Dike

Park Loop Road | 11.11.14 | Alba Mar Rodriguez

Dikes are igneous intrusions into bedrock. They often form in pre-existing fualts or fractures.

Fractures

Cadillac Mountain | 11.1.14 | Alba Mar Rodriguez

Fractures are cracks in rocks that form as a result of tectonic activity.

The Shatter Zone

Somesville Boat Launch | 10.11.14 | Gemma Venuti

A boulder comprised of large chunks of gabbro and basalt inside a granite matrix.

Crecentic Fracture

Cadillac Mountain | N.D. | Unknown

These fractures are created by glaciers. They are much less reliable than glacier striations in displaying the direction of glacial movement.

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Mineralized Zone

Havey Quarry | 5.25.15 | Hiyasmin Saturay

A mineralized zone at the Havey Quarry. This zone was most likley a product of a balsatic intrusion close by.
 

Minerals:

1. Lepidolite   (K(Li,Al,Rb)3(Al,Si)4O10(F,OH)2)

A purple mica with a hardness of 2.5 - 3. The purple colour comes from its lithium content. This mineral shares the same hexagonal shape as biotite and muscovite mica, but is often much smaller.

Picture modified after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidolite

2. Muscovite Mica    KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2

Just like Lepidolite, this mineral has a low hardness of 2 - 2.5. It exhibits the same hexagonal shape as Lepidolite and Biotite, but is a pearly white instead of black or purple. A specimin that contains many sheets is called "A book of mica".

Picture modified after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovite

3. Watermelon Tourmaline    (Al,Fe,Li,Mg,Mn)3(Al,Cr, Fe,V)6(BO3)3(Si,Al,B)6O18(OH,F)4    &    Quartz    SiO2

This is Maine's state mineral and is named after its' vivd green outside and pink inside. It has a hardness of 7 - 7.5 and is rarely found in gemstone quality. Completely black versions of this mineral are called schorl.

Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the world and has also has a hardness of 7. Gem quality specimens are called amythist. According to wikipedia (2015) the quality of quartz can be told by its' hardness. If it's lower than 7, the quality isn't as good.

Picture modified after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourmaline

4. Feldspar    KAlSi3O8 - NaAlSi2O8 - CaAl2Si2O8

There are many kinds of feldspar. The formulae above are those of potassium feldspar and plageoclase feldspar. The feldsoar in the picture above is plageoclase. Felspar generaly has a hardness of 6.

Picture modified after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar

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