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Morton, Minnesota 56270
(Photos)
TCW 2021 - Morton, MN
Not Moving at Morton
From the 1950s came a wall of tan-colored roman brick veneer, paired with panels of Morton Gneiss.
I was so severely overawed by the display of Morton Gneiss, my legs went out from under me and I collapsed onto the sidewalk.
At a panel of superancient Morton Gneiss was a diagonal lineup of quartz "galaxies," among feldspar "nebulae," in a "night sky" of biotite and amphibole.
It figures that a mass of 3.5-billion-year-old rock would resemble a swirling fantasy of primoridal gases and dusts when you slice it into panels and polish them nice.
One of the greatest geological delights in the universe was Morton Gneiss, shown here polished all pretty to show off its delightful swirls.
Wedded in panels of polished Morton Gneiss were: 3.5 billion years ago (the gneiss's granite protolith) and the year 1994 (the polished panels), at an academic library.
At a library at Washington State University were panels of polished Morton Gneiss from Minnesota, putting on a show of pleasing swirliness for our entertainment.
Morton Gneiss is magnificent to see, and should not be wasted on any but the grandest architectural applications.
At a Lutheran church, 3.5-billion-year-old metamorphic rock had become an expression of random polygonal rock-faced ashlar.
Morton Gneiss had come to this: random polygonal rock-faced ashlar.
Coneflower-sumac-goldenrod were scattered among various other plantlife.
See riverine potholes in an outcrop of gneiss in southern Minnesota.
A portrait of the smiling face of a hunk of gneiss I befriended in Minnesota.
At the edge of a shrublande was a hunke of gneisse, with a longwise cracke and a cupholder.
In the Minnesota River Valley in southern Minnesota was: an attractive chunk of Canadian Shield.
A large mass of gneiss was the setting for two broken chunks of gneiss, between which resided a small tree.
An outcrop of gneiss was humpen in aspect.
A rock outcrop was a curvèd hump of delightful gneiss in a crust of lichens.
In a nature preserve in southern Minnesota was an exposure of bedrock, the Morton Gneiss, harboring a hardy community of drought-tolerant plants.
TO MY DELIGHT I ENCOUNTERED: a slab of gneiss!, at rest atop a larger mass of gneiss.
In gneiss, these riverine potholes harbor "special"-style plant communities.
Memories Paleoarchean Neoarchean.
These were INTERMINGLED MEMORIES of primoridial goings-on deep underground, 3.5 billion years ago and 2.6 billion years ago.
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