Re: A stab at the geology

From: Stewart Stansfield <stu_stansfield_at_...>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:48:35 -0000


Nice piccies  

> Couldn't we have a few Great Big Crystals? Thirty feet
> tall or so? Spiky? Suitable for a Bat to not want to
> land on?
>
> And I seem to remember back in the days of RQ2, there
> were things called power storage crystals. Could we
> have something like these, but bigger and very
> immovable, built into the Wind temple?

Joerg mentioned pegmatite. In pegmatitic rocks, crystals of feldspars like orthoclase or microcline (see Trotsky's links) can reach the size of a house or larger.

And that's in *our* world...

:)

Stu.

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