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Dont let the loss of #garnet from #MinCup2020 be another tragedy of 2020. 
My love affair with this mineral has been an arduous journey, but despite the troubles I'm still committed to our relationship. https://twitter.com/MineralCup/status/1305408456741064706
My love affair with this mineral has been an arduous journey, but despite the troubles I'm still committed to our relationship. https://twitter.com/MineralCup/status/1305408456741064706
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Reason 1: Given how well garnet attenuates X-rays, we can put it in a tomography scannerâmaking it a perfect mineral to use to study crystallization processes and microstructure formation! The scanned sample below is 3 cm in diameter
Reason 1: Given how well garnet attenuates X-rays, we can put it in a tomography scannerâmaking it a perfect mineral to use to study crystallization processes and microstructure formation! The scanned sample below is 3 cm in diameter
Reason 4 for @MineralCup: Is this #garnet or galaxies?? Figure below shows the Cr distribution in a single population of garnet from the Sikkim Himalaya measured with laser-ablation ICP-MS. 
Reason 3: You'll be hard-pressed to find an as-useful petrochronological mineral that can link age with stage. See the amazing @EthanRockStory's work for more! Figure below from Baxter et al., 2013 (check it out its awessommme).
Reason 2 for @MineralCup: You can measure trace element in incredible detail with laser ablation systems. Oscillations in #garnet as recorders of pressure cycling?! Fluid cycles?! WOW! Who knows what we'll discover!? 
