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View eastward from the summit of Mt Somma caldera, Vesuvius is just to the south. 

Cyprus mountains..

Zeolite infilled vesicles in basaltic pillow lavas. Cyprus 

Folding at Playa de Valea, near Foz. Asturias. Spain

Venus Transit Animation of some screen-caps I took of the Venus Transit from the New Mexico feed on the SLOOH space camera site. Only caught the first hour as I had an exam the following morning

Geneva, Switzerland, 2010

Serpentinite vein in altered peridotite, Amiantos Asbestos Minem Pano Amiandos, near Mt. Olymous, Cyprus. 

Marble outcrop, Pyrenees

Folding in deformed marble/schist, Pyrenees. 

Tension gashes in deformed marble/schist. Planezes, Pyrenees. 

Crenulation Cleavage in deformed Limestone. Planezes, Pyrenees.

Sepentinites from Apsiou Village, Limassol, Cyprus. 

Gneiss outcrop on the road to Cistierna, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain.

Cleavage forms in the long axis of a strain ellipse and is progressively rotated toward the orientation of the maximum compressive strength, sigma1. They can be used to interpret sense of shear, the lower shear zone above shows top-to-the-right rotation, a dextral shear sense.

Limestone Cave, Cistierna mapping, N Spain

Apparently Geology degrees sometimes involves looking at Anseriformes... so here's a Red Breasted Goose I've been forced to deal with.