cracked lips, fading smile
Melting metamorphic boulder halted in its slide back into primordial Archean granite soup. Thereafter, perhaps 10 vertical km of Proterozoic and Paleozoic cover rocks were removed by erosion for exposure at surface. Hence the striped tabby grin from a fading Cheshire Cat. Same xenolithic islet as before.
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cracked lips, fading smile
Melting metamorphic boulder halted in its slide back into primordial Archean granite soup. Thereafter, perhaps 10 vertical km of Proterozoic and Paleozoic cover rocks were removed by erosion for exposure at surface. Hence the striped tabby grin from a fading Cheshire Cat. Same xenolithic islet as before.
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Uploaded on October 28, 2010
Taken in August 2010