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Ptygmatic fold: a pale orange-pink vein twisting in tight snake-like loops across a dark, finely banded grey-brown rock face dotted with lichen. — Ptygmatic fold in paragneisses Sophie Graul

Close-up of deep red-purple almandine garnet crystals with glittering faces, set in a white granular rock, against a dark blurred background. — Almandine in migmatite paragneiss Sophie Graul

Wet rock surface where pink granite meets a dark area of shiny, flaky black and silvery graphite and biotite, with a black multi-tool card with a ruler and number markings for scale. — Graphite in a contact zone between a pegmatitic dyke and a amphibolite Sophie Graul

Close-up of a pink and a darker purple-red garnet crystal surrounded by shiny black mica flakes and brassy metallic grains, set in white granular rock. — Almandines in a migmatite paragneiss from West Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a translucent brown garnet crystal riddled with fine cracks and glinting reflections, with dark grey and black rock around it. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland. Sophie Graul

Polished section of a dark rock: rounded black chromite masses separated by a grey network veined with bright orange, red and yellow patches and thin white cracks. — Ni ore from thre former Hitura mine, Finland Sophie Graul

Polished rapakivi granite with large round pale pink orthoclase crystals, each ringed by a greenish-grey rim, among smaller pink, green and black grains. — Rapakivi granite with typical round orthoclase crystals with oligoclase rims, Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a deformed gneiss with swirling bands of dark grey and pale cream rock, curving into S-shaped loops, with scattered reddish-brown garnet clusters. — Migmatite 'sigmoid' in garnet-paragneiss Sophie Graul

Rock outcrop of dark grey amphibolite blocks cut by a network of pale granitic veins, some crossing the others, with a geological hammer lying across it for scale. — Metamorphic complex with amphibolite enclaves crossed by two generations of granitic veins Sophie Graul

Outcrop of dark grey amphibolite slabs separated and veined by pale cream and pink granitic rock, with a red-handled geological hammer at the bottom for scale. — Amphibolite enclaves crossed by two generations of granitic veins Sophie Graul

Pale pink vein folded into a tight zigzag of loops, crossing finely striped dark grey and reddish rock, with a red-handled geological hammer at the bottom for scale. — Ptygmatic fold crossing a mylonite, within a paragneiss. Sophie Graul

Close-up of a stretched dark patch of grainy black hornblende crystals, edged by sandy pink-beige granitic rock with dark streaks, the surface glinting with tiny reflections. — Close-up of hornblendes crystals in stretched amphibolite enclave Sophie Graul

Pinkish-beige granite boulder holding dark grey angular blocks of meta-gabbro, lying among rounded grey pebbles, with a red-handled geological hammer for scale. — Example of meta-gabbro/amphibolite enclaves in a granite vein (possible pegmatite texture). Sophie Graul

Close-up of coarse pink feldspar crystals with flat shiny faces and black patches between them, with the head of a blue geological hammer resting in the lower left. — Detail of K-feldspars pegmatite-like vein on the Kopparnäs coastline, Finland. Sophie Graul

Close-up of two glassy reddish-brown garnet crystals, heavily fractured and sparkling, set against dark rock. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a rounded, translucent orange-pink garnet crystal with flat, cracked faces and dark inclusions, on a black background. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland Sophie Graul

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