taken 6 years ago, near to Botallack, Cornwall, England
Giant Garnet
The brownish rock on the top of this outcrop is a single enormous garnet. I don't think I was the only member of our party who would have failed to identify it as such, in its weathered and altered state. Garnets form when rocks containing aluminium and silica are metamorphosed, and they are very common, but normally less than a centimetre in diameter.
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