Detail of a photo: Glowing orange lava flow running down a dark slope at twilight, with smoke and pink-lit clouds rising past a dark cone-shaped hill behind it.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Metamorphism

An ode to metamorphism

On finding out my ‘profession’, there’s one fact that people proudly announce to me on a regular basis: “I know the three rock types: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic!”. What usually emerges from deeper probing is that most people are comfortable with the concept of sediments and magma, but metamorphism is a bit of an enigma. …[Read More]