The Madagascar landscape
Spinel (black) - garnet (red) leucogneiss
Meeting people at the roadcut
Taking advantage of a quarry
Incipient charnockite
titanite-clinopyroxene-scapolite gneiss
isoclinal folds in calcsilicate gneiss
Sapphire (purple & pink) -clinopyroxene-scapolite gneiss
Sapphirine and orthopyroxene
migmatite
Fresh outcrop at the river
garnet-biotite-sillimanite gneiss
discordant leucosome
engine repair with rock hammer and chisel
Malagasy village
Taking notes
Phlogopite mining
ferrying the car across the river
huge monazite (orange)
stuck in the mud
headed to the field
breakfast
rainbow over the southern Madagascar grassland
megacrystic orthopyroxene from massif anorthosite