Across
- 1. meteoritic jewelry
- 2. a swamp's deepest aspiration?
- 3. turbid clay/sand mix
- 7. named by Charles Lapworth for exposures near Loch Eriboll, Scotland
- 8. makes up the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, despite what the Park Service will tell you
- 10. sub-Moho greenery
- 14. odd lava erupted from Ol Doinyo Lengai
- 16. named for a town in ZA
- 17. red and bubbly, a favorite for landscapers
- 18. nature's pottery
- 20. widespread fossil fuel
- 22. evaporite with a soft touch
- 23. hot, wet, sheared mantle (the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge is "anchored" in it)
- 24. hot stuff for a young planet
- 25. so welded, it bears a glassy texture
- 27. finely felsic
- 29. rounded gravel that has finally stopped tumbling
- 32. on a lithofacies map, you'll find it between "fss" and "sh"
- 34. Europeans call it dolerite
- 37. fine lime, as from Solnhofen
- 38. fine-grained late-stage intrusion in many batholiths
- 39. red cryptocrystalline silica
- 42. banded and spongey, freshwater derived
- 45. named for a prominent mountain range
- 47. popular belts during the Archaean
- 49. brown, low-grade successor to peat
- 50. coccoliths suitable for scrawling
- 51. "zebra" stripes that indicate orogeny shearing a plutonic protolith
- 53. a seafloor sediment to make garden pests shudder
- 55. Pele's meringue
- 56. roe, roe, roe beneath your boat?
- 61. mafic + named for a U.S. state
- 62. extinct chemical sediment, indicative of an anoxic ocean
- 63. dark and conchoidal, good for axes
Down
- 1. some of its crystals can reach the size of a house
- 4. petrified beach or dune
- 5. might be mistaken for salt & pepper
- 6. dense enough to drive delamination?
- 9. recrystallized beach or dune
- 11. dry or rapidly-quenched, it's glass
- 12. cool under pressure
- 13. felsic + named for a U.S. state
- 15. its main mineral name derives from an Italian range
- 19. main constituent of the lunar highlands
- 20. upper crust, in the ocean at least
- 21. shards fused not far from home
- 26. "zebra" stripes that indicate orogeny shearing a sedimentary protolith
- 28. sediment with a rifty flavor
- 30. silica so fine
- 31. signature of old ice
- 32. flakey and scaly
- 33. shelly sand
- 35. sugary and fizzy, but not a soda pop
- 36. you can wipe it clean
- 40. a granite sans K-spar
- 41. smashed shells
- 43. most continental crust is taken for it
- 44. incredible, edible rock
- 46. a "fossil earthquake"
- 48. muddied waters might drop this signature
- 52. lithified cosmic dust
- 54. sitting on its ash
- 57. makes up the highest-elevation outcrop on this planet
- 58. pyroxene-bearing granitoid
- 59. a granite sans quartz
- 60. source from which granite flows