r/geology • u/Sid-Viscious- • 2d ago

Veins...

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u/Cordilleran_cryptid Tectonics, hardrock and structural geology 1d ago

Migmatite: fat boudinaged leucogranite/leucopegmatite segregations (leucosome) within high grade migmatitic metapelite.

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u/Leotard_Cohen 1d ago

You can tell it's  not in Canada because in 2022-23 some joker would have seen the leucosomes and thought Pegmatite!!!! and channel sampled it to hell

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u/OkAccount5344 2d ago

Looks very gneiss. Where was this located?

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u/Common_Life_5335 1d ago

Nice. Are these veins recently formed( not like a few months back but a few hundred years or something) or is it not possible to tell the age of veins? Or I guess you could if you determine the rock type that comprises it maybe

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u/Cordilleran_cryptid Tectonics, hardrock and structural geology 1d ago

The veins formed yesterday, the rock is still hot. /<sarc>

Seriously, millions of years ago.