Geospeedometer (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Geospeedometer

Caption

Millimeter-sized quartz crystals like this, which formed in molten magma, are the basis of the geospeedometer. The black dots are blebs of molten rock captured in the crystal when it formed.

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Gualda Lab, Vanderbilt University

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