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Also the constituents weather at different rates. Feldspar weathers much faster than quartz, and physically disintegrates too - both breaking apart and chemically changing from feldspar to clay minerals like chlorite as it hydrates and oxidizes. Eventually granite weathers down to a high-quartz content sand, like the soil at J Tree, or the granola you have to climb through on Yak Crack.

Put another way, there is no more a "granite mineral" than there is an "ethanol atom". If you break down ethanol into its component atoms, all you are left with is hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. Damn

But your "one chunk" won't be granite. It will be a mineral, either quartz or feldspar, or mica or hornblende or whatever. There is no thing as "one chunk of granite". The individual pieces that mnake it up are minerals, but there is no "granite mineral"

Granite is not "a chemical compound". It is an assemblage of minerals. Just like a molecule is not an atom.

Yeah, granite is a rock, not a mineral. A rock is made out of minerals like a cake is made out of raisins, sugar and flour. There is really no rock called quartz, except I suppose you could call hydrothermal deposits and veins quartz rock as they are 100 quartz crystals. There are pure quartz crystals (Silicon Dioxide Si02), and quartzite rock, which is a type of rock made of grains and pebbles and so on quartz. Also you get chert which is a hydrated amorphous Si02... blah blah!

Ya but those draws don't get as weathered cause the projector tend to replace the sketchmo ones... the draws do vanish off of abandoned projects.

granite is not a mineral. neither is diorite. the differences between granite, granodiorite, monzonite, quartz diorite, diorite, nepheline syenite, gabbro and dunite are chemical - the relative composition of the minerals making up the rock. quartz, three types of feldspar, mica, honblende and amphibolite usually. so granite has a lot of quartz and sodic feldspar, then as you go across the spectrum the feldspar changes with ratio of sodic to calcic and then potassium feldspar, and as you move into granodiorite and diorite you tend to lose the quartz altogether, then gabbro has almost no feldspar but is mostly mica, hornblende, amphibolite and other mafic rocks, finally you get dunite which is 100% olivine like the Twin Sisters. Chemically the light-coloured granites are equal to the light-coloured lavas like rhyolite and dacite that form volcanic ash... diorite and gabbro are equivalent to andesite and basalt... take Geol 100 to find out why.

lets face it, draws left hanging for a year get all ratty and uv-bleached, and they aren't very desirable booty, it's probably the only reason they are still there.

what did the mathematician do when he was constipated.... worked it out with a pencil

"granite" also includes monzonite and quartz monzonite smart guy Diorite is pretty common. I have a lump of it across the street from me I can look at as I type.

Fixed snafflehound left on pagetop!

here's schuldt saving some dog from the fire last year... a hot dog!

Bot your buddies

These are teachings of Yamamoto Jin'emon: · Singlemindedness is all-powerful. · Tether even a roasted chicken. · Continue to spur a running horse. · A man who will criticize you openly carries no connivance. · A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time. · Money is a thing that will be there when asked for. A good man is not so easily found. 71 · Walk with a real man one hundred yards and he'll tell you at least seven lies. · To ask when you already know is politeness. To ask when you don't know is the rule. · Wrap your intentions in needles of pine. · One should not open his mouth wide or yawn in front of another. Do this behind your fan or sleeve. · A straw hat or helmet should be worn tilled toward the front.

Maybe the Owls are sisters did you ever think of that smart guy?

Can you redpoint a trail if you pre-place shoes all the way along it and use them as stepping stones?

Don't forget September thru early October is elk rutting season! "Love is in the air!"

According to the article flacco is slang for skinny or weak. I found the article Dwayner is dissing quite inspiring. It reminded me of the article on Kansas climbing. It is good to know that even in areas devoid of climbing those with enough inspiration can find not only climbing, but sufficient material for their ego that the climbing becomes pose-worthy.

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"when the street wars jump off, only one thing to do, grab your gat and squeeze one off."

The way it was reported here earlier was that it was the trail to the base, not the route itself, that is the real issue. Are you saying the trail is outside the wilderness boundary because it is below the contour?

Low grade metamorphism will make gneiss from granite or volcanic rocks, schist shale or slate from mudstone and sandstone and volcanic rocks, marble from limestone etc. If you cook it enough basically anything but a pure quartz sandstone or a limestone will end up becoming a gneiss. This is why all the oldest rocks in the world end up as gneisses. Basically though, none of this is relevant for climbing. All you need to know is that most igneous intrusive rocks ("granites" even though chemically granite is not all that common) are pretty good to climb on, limestone can be good or bad, basalt is often pretty good, sandstone varies from good to bad and everything else sucks! Also you dont get many good cracks except in granites, sandstone and basalt.

Yo justin what about if they only free solo bolted climbs like Alex Huber!