22 September 2016
Eyes on some augens in a nice gneiss
Posted by Callan Bentley
One of the final outcrops I visited this summer in Shetland was a sweet exposure of augen gneiss in eastern “mainland.” Augen is from the German for “eyes” and refers to the sheared-out feldspars. If you stare long enough at these rocks, you may find that they are staring back at you.
A GigaPan of this outcrop:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Two more GigaPans to explore:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.