Here's photos of giant garnets, in an archean/proterozoic (1.8 to 3.5 BILLION years old!) gneiss.

Our work on mapping on our fifth and final field area started this morning. It is gorgeous, but there are huge hills and mountains in it and it's just over four square miles. It's located on the Anderson Ranch, private land which is owned by a really old historic Montana family.

On a complete off-note, Doctor Who is awesome. that last episode... man!