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pmonks (330ppm)

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Gigantic landscape #diagonalsforbob! #photography #itap #geology #plagioclasedykes #Sierranevada #california

Medium-distance photo of a mostly bare, glaciated granodiorite hillside with scattered pine trees here and there, and a very prominent thicc white plagioclase dyke extending across the entire hillside.

August 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM Everybody can reply

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pmonks (330ppm)

@pmonks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy

OMG DOUBLE #diagonalsforbob!!!!1 😍😍😍 #photography #itap #plagioclasedykes #Sierranevada #california

Photo of a pinkish slab of glacier-polished Sierra Nevada batholith granodiorite, with a diagonal crack from bottom left to top right, bisecting a white plagioclase dyke running from top left to bottom right.

August 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM Everybody can reply

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pmonks (330ppm)

@pmonks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy

#photography #itap #diagonalsforbob #plagioclasedykes #Sierranevada #california

A photo of a glacier-polished pinkish slab of Sierra Nevada batholith granodiorite, with a prominent white plagioclase dyke running through it diagonally from top left to bottom right.

August 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM Everybody can reply

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pmonks (330ppm)

@pmonks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy

Who says you always need #diagonalsforbob?? #photography #itap #Sierranevada #california #plagioclasedykes

Photo of a formerly glaciated granite landscape, with a prominent plagioclase dyke bisecting a flat slab of granodiorite in the foreground. In the middle distance a slightly domed ridge has two large Jeffrey pines growing out of it, one of them dead.

August 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM Everybody can reply

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