Geologist studying a quartz vein. Veins occur when minerals, deposited by water passing through cracks in the rock, crystallise out of solution. Photo

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Geologist studying a quartz vein. Veins occur when minerals, deposited by water passing through cracks in the rock, crystallise out of solution. Photographed in Kenya.

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