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Across
  1. 1. Author of Henry Fricke's blurb
  2. 3. Rock with a cool chemical composition?
  3. 5. Hot __, important theme of the '24/'25 academic year
  4. 6. Number of geology majors in the department this year
  5. 7. Best baseball team ever
  6. 9. The department's most ornery member, and Elizabeth's assistant
  7. 10. Paraprof Baxter's favorite mineral
  8. 12. Christine's new puppy
  9. 13. Most important part of a field sandwich
  10. 14. Institution in CO's capital that displays fossils and conducts paleontology research
Down
  1. 2. Professor retiring this year
  2. 4. (Mg,Fe)2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2
  3. 6. Type of mass spec. that sounds like a guy's name
  4. 8. The coolest word Arthur knows
  5. 11. City where 2024 GSA conference took place
  6. 13. Brief period of warming marking the bdry. between two recent(ish) geologic epochs