caffeinated discoveries

mente et malleo ☕ + ⚒ = 😊 instant geologist, just add coffeee avatar made with this picrew image maker by @sangled exiens persued by ticking crocodile

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MOTOROLA advertisement, DAZED & CONFUSED, #84, December 2001

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On This Day in Planetary Geology!

The first humans set foot on the Moon: July 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong's first photo after setting foot on the Moon, digitally scanned by JSC in 2004 from original film roll. Rocks returned by Apollo astronauts have revolutionized our understanding of planetary formation.

The first fully successful landing on Mars: July 20, 1976

This is the first photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars, by the Viking 1 Lander.

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RIP - Martin Parr -Birdwatchers, Surrey Bird Club, England, 1972

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Martin Parr, Italy, Lake Garda, 1999

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UNTITLED (ANTARKTIS CIRCULAR MAP) Robert Smithson 1967 Cut map Diameter 19 5/8" Collection of Tony and Gail Ganz, Los Angeles

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Crater of Popocatépetl

Artist:Jean Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 1793–1870)

Date: 1833

Medium: Oil on paper laid on canvas

Collection; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

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Postcard from Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson to Eva Hesse, postmarked July 10, 1967

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Gypsum non-site. Benton, CA 1968 Robert Smithson (1938–1973)

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Moscow, 1989 - Harry Gruyaert

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know the difference!

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It's a d

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[lost-lycaon]

Springstone sculptures crafted by Zimbabwean artists. Carefully hand chiseled, polished, and finished with wax. On display at Atlanta’s international airport in a tunnel between concourses T&A.

[hematitehearts]

Glaucocerinite

Size:  6.6 × 4.8 × 1 cm

Locality:  Serpieri Mine, Lavrion, Attica, Greece

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A selection from Wittenoom in Western Australia.

Wittenoom was a mining town set up to serve a large Crocidolite mine (AKA Blue Asbestos) the whole place is now a designated no-go contaminated zone and is still toxic af despite the actual mine having been closed down and abandoned in 1966.

It’s the largest contaminated zone in the southern hemisphere and I believe it spans an area of about 50,000 hectares.

In 2007 the town was officially delisted and removed from maps but a few residents refused the evacuation so it still had a handful of residents until I think it was 2022 after which nobody was left. Don’t know whether the last two who were left there just moved out or died but my money would be on they died there.

Of all the minerals that are classified as being asbestos Crocidolite is the one considered the most dangerous due to its fibres being extremely tiny and as a result much more easily inhaled and harder to filter out. Pretty sure it’s this mineral that’s been the type of asbestos found to have the highest instance of deaths and disease attributed to it.