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Vista from the Atlantic Path in Rockport.
Sheets of slate among the rocks along the Atlantic Path in Rockport.
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Those aren’t sheets of slate but are gabbro, a type of igneous rock which filled that crack in the granite from below and made a dike. (In the ordovician about 450 million years ago when all this rock was also miles underground.)
Slate is sedimentary rock which is tough to find on Cape Ann. I really didn’t know anything about gabbro dikes until yesterday when that dike was pointed out to me and read up on it.
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With all my pontificating, forgot to mention, awesome photos.
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Thanks. Still learning with a new camera. (And fighting the urge to twist the knob back to the auto settings!) One of these days, I’ll need to take a class since I’m just winging it most times.
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Awesome pics.
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Gabbro it is then!
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