#zircons

[courtshipfan]

OMG THEY'RE SO COOL?????? (art NOT mine, art from yuyuneko22 on twitter)

Chat who can draw zircons wearing this im on a heavy artblock 🫩🫩🥹

[bzncklicker]

ibis has shitty fonts okay

[chick-magnet-marco]

dear god. caramellzircons

[xanaxfarts]

Brooch by Giuliano. Coloured zircons and diamonds, c. 1890.

[mindblowingscience]

Earth's plate tectonics fired up hundreds of millions of years earlier than we thought, ancient crystals reveal

New research hints that plate tectonics began earlier than 4 billion years ago — not long after Earth had formed.

The plate tectonics that cause earthquakes, build mountains and split continents may have started when Earth was in its infancy, new research finds — significantly earlier than many scientists previously thought.  The new study suggests plate tectonics started more than 4 billion years ago — not long after the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. In this era, known as the Hadean, Earth was fresh and piping hot, with an ammonia-and-methane atmosphere imbued with enough water to eventually condense into a planet-wide ocean. During this period, Earth cooled enough to have a solid outer crust. 

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[skyofsapphires]

The Duchess Clover Earrings by Kenneth Jay Lane

Debuted in New York in 2014.

[wolframcarbide]

[cohapon]

💙"Why am I so busy...?"

Blue Zircon, who is very busy at work, fell down because Yellow Zircon was messing with him. This little comic shows what happened right after that.