Monday, February 21, 2011

A Presidents' Day Rock: Granite (& Mica Schist)

Presidents carved in granite. Image taken from wikipedia here.
Happy Presidents' Day, everyone!

Lab is nice and quiet today, in honor of our nation's presidents. Excellent. I always accomplish more on holidays! Fewer people around to distract me.

In honor of Presidents' Day, here is a document published by the U.S. National Park Service about the geology of Mt. Rushmore:

Mount Rushmore National Memorial Geologic Resource Evaluation Report

And here is a simple geologic map of the Mt. Rushmore area taken from the above document:
Simple geologic map of the Mt. Rushmore area. Figure taken from here.

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