Childs
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Childs
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Professional Rock Wrangler American Museum of Natural History Views are my own
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The latest eruption of Kilauea is underway, and she's shootin' sideways this time around!

USGS live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
Correction on the alt text: the specimen is from Ocna de Fier, Romania. Not Dal'negorsk, Russia.

An edit button would be nice around these parts.
When I hand people my phone, I get asked about the stupid number of rock pics. But I mean look at it

#geology #minerals #calcite #quartz
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First JWST image of 2025.
Wolf-Rayet star WR 140.
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Had that happen to me over on Mastodon, too. People get defensive over the weirdest shit.
Y'all are out here making castles out of volcanic glass and acting like it's mithril
My kingdom for a fantasy novel that actually understands what obsidian is
Anyone else have a soft spot for wooden crystal models?
I remain haunted by one of the best cerussite crystals I have ever seen. A perfect arrowhead twin perched on large crystals of anglesite. Lead mineral power couple.

#mineralogy #geology
what if it is a really good one
Love seeing the ways #sci-fi is used to bring new #science into popular imagination. Analog always included one article on "science fact" among its stories. This issue from 1966 tries to explain the new (and then-controversial) theory of plate tectonics!

#geology #history
Just joined up and throwing my name out into the void. Follow for commentary on:

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