2025 GAC-NL PHOTO CONTEST
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2025 GAC-NL PHOTO CONTEST -
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There was 40 photos submitted from 23 contestants from both students and professionals. We would like to congratulate the winners and thank everyone for participating in such great numbers. We would like to thank Titjaluk Logistics who kindly sponsored the contest again this year. These photos provide us a glimpse into the places and rocks our members visit, with some perhaps seeing these places for the first time.
The 2025 GAC-NL Photo Contest Winners are:
1st place for $300
Labradorite - Taber Island, east of Nain
by Alana Hinchey
Lower Ordovician Fossils
Wabana Group, Bell Island
by Jeff Morgan
2nd place for $150
3rd place for $50
Flow, Adam’s Cove
by Ivan Yip
Honorable Mentions:
Snowfall blankets the rugged terrain across Doe Hills of the Musgrave Group, Newfoundland. Taken: Doe Hills, Newfoundland.
Cirque and tarn in mid Mesoproterozic mafic rocks. Southwest of Man O'War Peak, Northern Labrador
"Archean gneiss" - Location: Webb Bay, North of Nain, Labrador.
The Chimney, Spillars Cove
Straddling Across Million Years Apart, Ferryland NL
Elongated biotite within a pegmatite, Nain, Labrador
It was an arduous task choosing the winners again this year with many great pictures submitted. You can see all pictures submitted down below.
Labradorite in a shallow pool of water, Nain Labrador
Osprey on sea stack, Bellevue Beach
Diabase dyke cutting Cambrian Shale, Near Point May, Burin
A coastal outcrop showcasing pillow basalt formations along the rugged shoreline, Pouch Cove
Soft-sediment deformation in shallow marine facies of the Ediacaran Grates Cove Member, Bay de Verde Group, Grates Cove, NL.
Side of a volcano? Scree slope? No, Ediacaran proximal alluvial fan facies – fully lithified – at Red Head, Flatrock, NL.
Melange of rounded rafts in a shear zone, Hopedale Block
Polydeformed volcaniclastics around quartz vein, Florence Lake greenstone belt.
Blue_quartz – porphyritic granite in the Burgeo intrusive suite with pink K-feldspar phenocrysts, blue quartz, biotite (black) and titanite (dark brown).
Zoned_mica – beautifully zoned mica in the Hydra LCT pegmatite dyke in southern Newfoundland. The mica has a green phengite core and a purple lepidolite rims. Also in the photo are orange garnet, black tourmaline, gray quartz, and gray albite.
Quartz and K-feldspar aplite intruding a granodiorite enclave and the host biotite-hornblende monzogranite. Note the coarser K-feldspar xenocrysts in the enclave. Umiakovic Lake batholith, Labrador
Graphic intergrowth of quartz and K-feldspar in pegmatite, Umiakovic Lake Batholith, Labrador.
Hydrothermally altered flow-banded rhyolite, Point Rosie; eastern side of Fortune Bay
5-10m wide 422 Ma Silicic dykes in Fogo Harbour Formation
Fluorite on fault surface, Kings Point Complex
Fall colours, Tolt Hill, Great Rattling Brook, Central NL.
Sedimentary Chaos near Grand Falls Windsor, Central NL.
Rocks within the Tilting layered complex displaying evidence of magmatic processes, Tilting, Fogo Island.
Striated and glacially polished mafic bedrock. Ice flow is from right to left. Tikkigakson peninsula, Northern Labrador
The Crocodile’s Foot — Folded Rocks Clawing into the Sea (off the coast of Cape Spear, NL). The coastal cliff face exposes a steeply inclined, tightly folded metasedimentary/or volcanic sequence truncated by marine erosion. Bedding planes show strong compressional deformation, producing tight to isoclinal fold geometry with well-preserved limbs and hinges. The oblique truncation of layers and the sharp inflection zones indicate significant compressional tectonics. Active wave erosion at the base has exploited structural discontinuities, forming incipient sea caves along the fold hinge-limb contact. The overall stepped, claw-like protrusion of the folded limbs jabbing into the surf evokes the form of a crocodile’s foot gripping the shoreline.
Deployement of a seismograph station in Buchans core shed for the PACMIN experiment (Passive Array for Critical Minerals on the Island of Newfoundland)
Beach in Burgeo, taken during the PACMIN seismic deployment
Light Between Stone and Sky. Taken in Bonavista
Gabe sleeping on a rock (bare feet) somewhere in Newfoundland and Labrador
Cloudy sky at Westport beach, Baie Verte
Red Chert beds of the Strong Island Group at East Alcock Island (Leading Tickles Area).
Xenoliths of Voisey's Bay troctolite hosted within Makhavinekh Lake rapakivi granite
Bell Island rock stack
Berry Head Arch, Spurwink Island Path, East Coast Trail
Coarse pyroxenite hosted in dunitic boulders of the Tablelands.
Tilted beds of sandstones, pebble conglomerates, and tuffs of the Bull Arm Formation, Isthmus of Avalon.