Rock Identification with Willsey: Foliated Metamorphic Rocks - Slate, Phyllite, Schist, and Gneiss 

I purchased a sample almost identical to that piece, mine has 3 garnets and there are impressions in the schist where 5 more garnets were at one time, I believe the sample came from Alaska. I wonder if there might be more garnets inside if i split it open however I would be concerned it might destroy the sample.

Top tier dad joke my friend

It's tuff to not be too full of schist.

lol My wife got me a T-shirt that says "Schist happens...metamorphically speaking."

I had a high school science teacher who once said "phyllite schist" but it sounded like he used profanity.

That’s very gneiss of you to say!

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You are so welcome!

Hey thanks so much for your kind words and donation. These have been fun and relatively easy to do.

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, my wife doesn't get it either but she supports it and is probably impressed I made geology and rocks a viable career. Thanks for watching and learning with me.

In my family, it's the females that are into rocks. Dad would look at the coffee cans full of pebbles mom who bring home from agate beach in Washington and just shake his head. He didn't seem to realize I had my own sack of those pebbles. He also didn't know that I had hidden when we moved from VA a 10 by 6 inch Rock full of fossils. I snuck that home from girl scout camp along the Potomac River. I still have it, too. I've continued to bring rocks home all my life. I have a piece of mt Stuart granite in my medicine bundle. My middle daughter has taken after mom and I. I told her about your id series, and she wants me to teach her, lol. I've really enjoyed this series.

​@Anne5440 so true! Funny how we remember just where we found our special ones. I joke about all the rocks I've collected sinking our property. 😂

I realized later that the progression of slates to gneiss is explain for clarity of concept. Ive seen it being taught a couple times the same way, I learned through seeing granite schist and gneiss so its always coconfusing.

And I'm between is migmatite , which resembles a lava lamp frozen in time . This is literally the birthplace of continental crust , as the lighter felsic minerals are segregating from the darker magic minerals , and , rising to form batholiths . And yes , granite can exhibit flow banding , and , be metamorphosed as well . Mother nature has quite a messy lab , and will recycle all things in due course .

This might work: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--W2___KLTTA.html

Probably garnet crystals. Fun.

Is it a metamorphic rock creating a igneous rock?

Foliation is the alignment of minerals and will also occur in crystalline rocks as opposed to bedding which is in sedimentary rocks made of grains or organic material.

Look under video description for link.

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Much appreciated. Glad you found this helpful.

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You bet!

It really is!