The Home of the Hard Rock Geologist
Here at Gabbrosoft.org we make no bones about the fact that we are mad on all things hard-rock geological. So, be you an igneous or metamorphic petrologist, a geochemist or a mineralogist, you are bound to find something here of interest!
This is also the home of our ‘World Famous’ mineral chemistry spreadsheets, which can be used to recalculate mineral stoichiometry based on electron microprobe analysis. There are also a number of other spreadsheets available that can be used to calculate a whole range of useful geochemical and geological parameters.
You can also find us on Facebook at The Hard Rock Zone which is the place to share geological news, information and images of an igneous, mineralogical, metamorphic or volcanological nature. We are also active on Pinterest, where a whole host of hard rock images are being gathered together, and our Gallery of photomicrographs and related field images is a growing resource.
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.
John McPhee (2000)
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
Bill Bryson (2014), 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'
I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.
Herbert Harold Read
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Neil Armstrong
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due TIME allowed!!!) must assume that state,—none can escape. All records of former worlds must ultimately perish.
Sir John Herschel, 1836
...Rocks, like everything else, are subject to change, and so are our views on them.
Loewinson-Lessing (1936)
That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?
Terry Pratchett (2006), 'Wintersmith'
