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Here are our top 6 reasons for visiting the Museum of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Let us know what are your reasons for visiting us.
#Museum
#Meme
#Paleontology
#Geology
#Fossils
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Welcome to the wackiest Wednesday!!!
#Museum
#wednesday
#VirginiaTech
#earthsciences
#VTGeosciences
#geology
#hokies
#dinosaurs
23 days ago
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Time for Tectonic Tuesday, taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
24 days ago
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Back for Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
26 days ago
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Itβs time for Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
about 1 month ago
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Up next for Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
about 1 month ago
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Now on Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#mtsainthelens
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
about 2 months ago
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Time for Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
about 2 months ago
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Itβs time for Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
about 2 months ago
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Current Event!! Tectonic Tuesday
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#mtsainthelens
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
#hurricaneseason
about 2 months ago
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Time for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
2 months ago
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Itβs time for Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
2 months ago
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Drum roll for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#mtsainthelens
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
2 months ago
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Time for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
2 months ago
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Welcome to the wackiest Wednesday!!!
#Museum
#wednesday
#VirginiaTech
#earthsciences
#VTGeosciences
#geology
#hokies
2 months ago
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Drum roll for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#mtsainthelens
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
2 months ago
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Time for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
2 months ago
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Itβs time for Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
3 months ago
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Time for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
3 months ago
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Itβs time for Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
3 months ago
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Time for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#hurricanekatrina
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
3 months ago
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Now for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
3 months ago
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Itβs time for another Fossil Friday!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
3 months ago
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Welcome to the wackiest Wednesday!!!
#Museum
#wednesday
#VirginiaTech
#earthsciences
#VTGeosciences
#geology
#hokies
3 months ago
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Drum roll for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!!
#Museum
#tectonic
#geophysics
#VirginiaTech
#Earth
#mtsainthelens
#VTGeosciences
#tuesday
3 months ago
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Time for our next Mineral Monday!
#Museum
#minerals
#geology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#earthscience
3 months ago
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Itβs time for our next Fossil Friday!!!
#Museum
#Fossils
#Paleontology
#VirginiaTech
#VTGeosciences
#Earth
#Friday
3 months ago
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Itβs time for Tectonic Tuesdays!
#tectonic
#museum
#virginiatech
#vtgeosciences
#Earth
#EarthSciences
#GEOS
#geophysics
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Here are our top 6 reasons for visiting the Museum of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Let us know what are your reasons for visiting us.
#Museum
#Meme
#Paleontology
#Geology
#Fossils
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Dr Susannah Lydon
6 months ago
A Glossopteris leaf - found across the southern continents - from around 250 million years ago
#FossilFriday
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Erika Anderson
7 months ago
A rare copper mineral krΓΆhnkite from the Chuquicamata mine, Chile, one the largest open pit copper mines and where mining has occurred for thousands of years.
#MineralMonday
#GeoscienceBluesky
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Bob Nicholls Art
7 months ago
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A closer look at my 2023 illustration of the
#HellCreek
, featuring
#Triceratops
#Tyrannosaurus
#Acheroraptors
#Pachycephalosaurs
; from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Benton.
#SciArt
#PaleoArt
#Dinosaurs
#Trex
#TyrannosaurusRex
#JurassicWorld
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Museum of Geosciences
Mineralogical Society of America
7 months ago
Thin Section Thursday! This serpentinite from the Ivrea-Verbano zone, is serpentine with cross-cutting veins of an opaque, probably magnetite. In crossed polars, the serpentine is first-order gray and is folded into wavey patterns in some regions. Contributed by Matt Kohn.
#serpentine
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Museum of Geosciences
Samuele Papeschi γ΅γ γ¨γ¬ γγγΉγ | Geology is the way βοΈπ§ͺ
7 months ago
Recrystallized quartz-rich aplite, now a mylonite. The magma that intruded the shear zone...
#geology
#granite
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Apophyllite from the Deccan Traps in India!
#MineralMonday
8 months ago
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How many trilobites do you see in the shale?π Happy
#FossilFriday
!
#Trilobite
8 months ago
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Kicking off
#MineralMonday
with some gorgeous ruby in zoisite collected from Tanzania.
8 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
with Lepidodendron!
8 months ago
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Happy
#MineralMonday
with Fluorite!
8 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Here is a cast of Coelophysis bauri.
8 months ago
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Happy
#MineralMonday
with calcite and barite from Spain.
8 months ago
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Did you know oreodont teeth can fluoresce a bright peachy-orange color when exposed to UV light? Happy
#FossilFriday
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Happy
#MineralMonday
. Today, we have gorgeous gold within ore rock. This specimen was collected in Silverton, Colorado.
9 months ago
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Thank you to everyone who attended Saturday's Specimen ID Day, to all the student volunteers, and to Professor Neil Johnson, who helped identify the minerals, rocks, and fossils for the public!
9 months ago
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Please join us this Saturday, April 12th, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the Museum of Geosciences in room 2062 for our first-ever Specimen ID Day! We encourage the public to bring any rocks, minerals, fossils, or meteorites they may have and want to be identified by faculty, staff, and students!
9 months ago
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Happy
#MineralMonday
! We have a gorgeous piece of quartz with dolomite collected from Bahia, Brazil.
9 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
from VT rex!
9 months ago
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Don't you just love fluorescent minerals? See more at our Museum!
#Mineral
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