Could bugs be causing flaws in garnets?
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rocks2dust
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Could bugs be causing flaws in garnets?
Interesting hypothesis: tunnels in some garnets may have been produced by microorganisms
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Re: Could bugs be causing flaws in garnets?
You beat me to it, r2d. My source was different, but it's the same story and pics I was going to post, too. 
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-tiny-tunn ... nisms.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-tiny-tunn ... nisms.html
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Re: Could bugs be causing flaws in garnets?
I did post it, but i dumped it. Not surprising to me. Life is very original and we dont know the half of it.
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