#mineral classification

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"Quartz; it's the crystal-ass looking crystal" -me, explaining rudimentary mineralogy concepts to my coworkers

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Some of you have never felt like you're looking at things you shouldn't see and staring into the eyes of God while looking for optical interference figures and it shows

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I took Intro to Geology in high school, and our mineral identification lab consisted of, I wanna say, about twenty minerals.

I was top of my class and little sixteen year old me thought "Yep. That's it. That's all the minerals there are."

And then, three years later, I took mineralogy.

Boy howdy.

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Come find me at my Peridotite table tomorrow at GSA!

I'll be out in the 1st floor main lobby with a petrographic scope.

First four people to find me and speak the secret phrase "You can eat in the geology lab" get a free drink ticket for Wednesday

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