FyeahGeology

Awesome geology from anywhere and everywhere

[eyesawtheuniverse]

Crystals. 

ºAmethyst

ºIndicolite Tourmaline

ºScorodite

ºOpal

º Spessartite Garnets

Fuck yeah, crystals.

[earth-phenomenon-blog]

Maly Semiachik dormant Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

[mineralists]

Agate var. Onyx with Quartz Requested by my-personal-dephts Couldn’t find many pictures that I liked, but this one is splendid!

[rocksremember]

Apophyllite

Poona, Maharashtra, India

No. 0187 from the Elfstone Collection

[merblogogy-blog]

The ‘Cave of Three Bridges’

With a 837ft drop the Baatara gorge waterfall is hidden within a cave of Jurassic limetone in Tannourine, Lebanon.

[playfulness]

Fimmvorduhals Volcanic Eruption Iceland 2010

[themineralogist]

Uvarovite from Russia

[tuffschist]

Uvarovite is a chromium-bearing garnet group species with the formula: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3. It was discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765-1855), a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector.

Uvarovite is one of the rarest of the garnet group minerals, and is the only consistently green garnet species, with a beautiful emerald-green color. It occurs as well-formed fine-sized crystals. Specimens of uvarovite are much sought after by collectors for outstanding brilliance and color.

[macroscopicsolutions-blog]

Cuproadamite Crystal .04 cm x .03 cm 

[truthisnonexistentpw]

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

Fluorite - Italy

[nickijuana]

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Blue Canyon - Hopi Indian Reservation Land, Arizona

[curiouspotent]

EARTHQUAKES TURN WATER INTO GOLD

Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims.

Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world’s gold deposits.

[science-junkie]

Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years?

A newly discovered crack in the Earth’s crust could pull North America and Europe together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years, scientists say. A new map of the seafloor off the coast of Iberia—the region of Europe that includes Portugal and Spain—has revealed what could be the birth of a new subduction zone. Subduction zones happen when tectonic plates—the large rock slabs that make up the Earth’s crust—crash into one another. The edge of the heavier plate slides, or subducts, below the lighter plate. It then melts back into the Earth’s mantle—the layer just below the crust. The discovery of this new subduction zone, published on June 6 in the journal Geology, could signal the start of an extended cycle that fuses continents together into a single landmass—or “supercontinent"—and closes our oceans. Read more

[anxiousglances]

Volcano Pacaya.(Guatemala)

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

Epistilbite in a Basalt geode - India

[earth-phenomenon-blog]

Niagara Falls, Canada/USA

[fyeahgeology]

One of the best experiences of my life was seeing this amazing place