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Michael Stone (born 1966) is an English author. He still lives in the area with his wife and daughter. In the last three years, he has sold stories to online and print magazines such as Continuum SF, Kopfhalter! and Fusing Horizons, as well as appearing in the anthologies Cold Glass Pain, Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre and Robots and Time.
Mica is common in igneous and metamorphic rock and is occasionally found as small flakes in sedimentary rock. [6] It is particularly prominent in many granites, pegmatites, and schists, [7] and "books" (large individual crystals) of mica several feet across have been found in some pegmatites. [8]
Dear Martin, published in 2018 by Crown Publishing Group, is an adult novel by Nic Stone. It is Stone's debut novel, written as a reaction to the murder of Jordan Davis. [1] The book appeared as #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list. [2]
He adds to this a discussion of surface rocks in New York City, which seem to have undergone a radical chemical change—the feldspar has been converted into slate and the mica has separated out from the iron, as if they had undergone tremendous heat and pressure, as they likely would in the event that a comet struck the earth.
During a trip to Israel in 2008, Stone discovered that she wanted to become a writer when encountering a family with a story that fascinated her. [5] Stone wrote her first novel for young adults in 2017, inspired by American young adult novelist Veronica Roth's Divergent series because it was the first series featuring Black characters that she encountered that live until the end. [5]
The Wissahickon Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.It is named for the Wissahickon gorge in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.. In Maryland formations, the term "Wissahickon" is no longer used.
19th century illustration of the extraction of petuntse and kaolin in China. Petuntse (from Chinese: 白墩子; pinyin: báidūnzì), also spelled petunse and bai dunzi, baidunzi, is a historic term for a wide range of micaceous or feldspathic rocks.
Oakley stone is micaceous, meaning it is a mica-bearing stone. This mineral gives the product a fish-scale-like sheen. The stone is noted for its great variety of colors, ranging from white and silver to browns, yellows, and golds. [1] Another stone in the area, Elba Quartzite, is a green micaceous quartzite.