What's your favourite rock and why?

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Mikayla

29d

INTP

Sagittarius

2

1

Mammoth Lakes, CA

One of the many pretty photos I got to take during summer field 🥰 Can you spot the giant U-shape carved out by a glacier? 😉 (edited)

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𝑻a𝒍

17d

INFJ

Cancer

5

4

'lil geology jokes

'cause we're fun people 😆

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Zach

1mo

ISFJ

Capricorn

6

7

Please help me identify this

**UPDATE* Since posting this, i have settled on this stone being green zebra jasper. Still nothing on where it may have come from, though.* I've had this thing for a several years. I found it buried in a yard in south-central Kansas, USA. It's been slowly smoothed and given the slightly glossy... (edited) read more

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Moon

6mo

ENTP

Virgo

2

1

Do you know what it is? 🤤😝

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Jonathan

1y

ISTJ

1

2

Fossilized Wood

Fossilized wood that my grandfather gave me a few months ago. It's been sitting on my dresser since October so it's dusty af. My grandfather found it in either a creek bed or old river bed decades ago. I'll have to ask him again I can't remember which.

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Crystals

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Amethyst & Fairburn Agate

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Chris

1y

ENFP

Scorpio

4

5

North East England

I've just recently moved here and now the moves complete, does anyone know any interesting geological facts about Northumberland. Or suggestions of where to go.Anyone fancy getting hammered and seeing if we can get our rocks off?

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Haden

2mo

ISFP

Leo

Columnar Basalt

Anyone like columnar basalt? It's my favorite rock unfortunately I don't know if Alabama has any

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Geode

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Bubble Druzy over Calcite

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Quartz

Large geode in a rock quarry.

1/4

#memes

Justin

2mo

INFJ

Capricorn

2

3

Yep and I'll still call it the Gulf of Mexico🤷🤷

#funny #humor #geography #geology

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Lynnae

2mo

INFJ

Virgo

2

1

Calcite Quartz Mix

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𝑻a𝒍

10mo

INFJ

Cancer

5

4

Field Day

One of (those) Field Day. Kinda miss it #geology #adventure

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𝑻a𝒍

10mo

INFJ

Cancer

5

4

Field Day

Crossing the meandering river (and its bank). Central Java, Indonesia. Beautiful sunny day 🌞 #adventure

#paleontology

𝑻a𝒍

5mo

INFJ

Cancer

5

4

Lab. Day 🔬

Have you found your own fossil(s) ? Do you collect any fossil(s) ? (was having this during my break time) #geology #science #books

#moldavite

TH

5mo

ENFP

Gemini

8

7

Mexican jewelery

Moldavian Moldavite with Mexican silver... Awesome and Beautiful combo 💚 #minerals #crystal #geology #jewelry #energy #holisticlifestyle #holistic

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𝑻a𝒍

6mo

INFJ

Cancer

5

4

Did you find the tiny dino?

Sandstone. Weathered. Fine to coarse grain. 1st time we found this site, we thought it's limestone 😅 took a closer look and found out it's sandstone. It was a mine. Weathering make this site look like this. Locals call this site 'Jurassic Park' because of the landscape reminds them of Jurassic... read more

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Babak

12mo

INTJ

Capricorn

5

6

Ologist

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Annamari

7mo

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Uraninite aka Pitchblende

Uranium-dioxide, the main ore which used in the making of the dense uranium. Mined in Czechia. Since it's an Uranium ore, highly radioactive. The most radioactive specimen in my collection.

#lgbtqally

Laura

9mo

INTP

6

7

😆😆

As a fan of #geology and LGBT I really enjoy this #meme

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Madison

11mo

INTP

Leo

7

8

never judge 😔

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Babak

12mo

INTJ

Capricorn

5

6

Passion

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Gift from the Copper mine: Azurite

The picture can't giving back it's starry shine, mined in Morocco and it's common. The good quality ones and the geodes are rare and usually small, the tabled crystal form is the most prized. A piece of the Starry Sky, crafted by Mother Earth.

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Annamari

1y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Illustration for better understanding

The color changing in Garnets

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Manahil

1y

ENTP

Scorpio

2

3

Why did the tectonic plates break up?

It wasn’t their fault, there was just too much friction between them. I saw it. I had to share it, so here it is. Sue me. (edited)

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Rui

1y

ENFP

2

1

That lava flow frozen in time...

Obsidian rhyolite

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Annamari

3y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Collection

Calcite var. Hungary- Pilisjászfalu, collected by Zoltán Urbán in 2019, bought it, and added to my collection in the same year. It begun to dissolve back, that's why it's dull surface, Mt. Pilis is famous here from it's karst cave system, it's stalactites mainly from this calcite.

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Rare gems: Torbernite

It is from my collection, and it kept all the time in that plastic container due the alpha radiation. It's used worldwide as dense uranium, pressed into yellowish "cakes". Mined in 2021, France. It can be found within other copper ores.

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Quartz-Pyrite-Galena on matrix

Something really common, but really beautiful. It's the most frequently mined ore (galena) in the Carpathians along with the iron, copper and aluminum ores. This specimen is probably from Romania or Slovakia (I haven't got a label, but it's price said that). Not my rarest, but one of the best... read more

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Annamari

1y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Rare gems: Garnet (it's not that rare at all, but still precious)

This one is Spessartine Garnet with Quartz and some metamorph crystals from China. The Garnets are widely used since the Bronze age as abrasives and jewelry and it's color varies from the burgundy and tea color to green and even blue (which is very rare).

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Rare gems: Aquamarine

Noble beryl from Shigar valley, Pakistan.

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Azurite repost

I posted this azurite a while ago, so I'm not going to do a bigger description about it, but now I can show it's real beauty thanks to the video posting.

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Rare gems: Epidote

Actually an abundant rock forming stone, coming along with marble. It's color depends on the iron content. Sometimes the well formed crystals used as gemstones, which is very rare. This one mined in Italy.

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Jacqueline

1y

INFJ

Scorpio

1

9

Rhodochrosite

As seen at DMNS from the Sweet Alma mine here in Colorado

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Annamari

1y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Vivianite, the Corpse Crystal

It's an Iron-Phosphate, which origin can be both igneous and as it's name says in the proper conditions growing from the iron content of a dead body in phosphorus-rich environments. It's color is originally dark bottle green or dark blue, and it's very fragile 1,5-2 it's hardness on the Mohs- scale.

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Annamari

1y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

The Mohs scale

For the better understanding

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Annamari

2y

INFJ

Virgo

1

2

Rare gems, polished edition (and it's not rare either)

Labradorite labradorising. The Labradorite is a calcium-enriched feldspar which can display an iridescent effect. This one is mined in China, but can be found in Canada (Where it's found for the first time and got it's name from), Madagascar, US, Australia and Slovakia. It's iridescence can come... (edited) read more