Did you know, that the melting temperature of dry granite at ambient pressure is 1250 to 1260 Celsius; however, that temperature is significantly reduced in the presence of water, putting it down to 650 degrees Celsius at just a few kilobars of pressure.
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snoons@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Klear@quokk.au 3 hours ago
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Are you saying the cretaceous was an inside job?
Wren@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I love Marcus.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
They should create a region of the nether in Minecraft where it’s like an old graveyard for pigmen and the ground there should be made out of pigneous rock.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
As a geologist from Illinois, I wish we had some Igneous granite. In my field camp we cored 500 feet of glacial loess.
jqubed@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Username relevant?
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
MARCUS ON LEMMY FINALLY!!! the videos of him are SO funny
negativenull@piefed.world 8 hours ago
This was me growing up.
Now, my son:
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The 2nd one is a Camarasaurus tooth we found as a volunteer on a dig
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
Pls post on !palaeontology@mander.xyz :)))
negativenull@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Done!
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