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Day 166 : An aplite dyke cutting the Åmål Granite, Dalsland, Sweden. Keele collection.

Day 165 : Ursand Granite, an alkali granite from Dalsland Sweden. Keele collection.

Day 164 : Last day in the field in Cumbria, England. This is the ridge on Kirkland Fell, below Cross Fell, produced by the more resistant Whin Sill.  The Southern Uplands of Scotland are just visible on the horizon.

Day 163 : In the field on Wildboar Scar on the side of Cross Fell, Cumbria. Not much exposure here but a subtle fold is evident. 

Day 162 : More fieldwork. Porphyritic andesite at the confluence of Short Grain, Long Grain and Hay Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Part of the Caradocian Eycott Volcanics of the Lake District Arc.

Day 161 : More Lake District field work. Here a quartz-rich mineral vein in the roof of the entrance to an old mine in Brandy Gill. Host rock is a microgabbro of the Carrock Fell Complex. Cumbria, England. 

Day 160 : On field work in the Lake District. This is the Kirk Stile Formation (better known as the Skiddaw Slates) displaying a chevron fold. Grainsgill Beck, near Carrock Mine, Lake District, England.

Day 159 : A mafic augen granite gneiss from the basement to the Åmål supracrustals, Dalsland, Sweden. Keele collection.

Day 158 : Post Ellero alkali granite, much recrystalised, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, quartz and biotite (recrystalised to chlorite and epidote). Dalsland, Sweden. Keele collection.

Day 157 : Porphyry from the Åmål supracrustals, 20km south of Åmål, Sweden. Keele collection.