Time for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!! #Museum #tectonic #geophysics #VirginiaTech #Earth #hurricanekatrina #VTGeosciences #tuesday

Now for our next Mineral Monday! #Museum #minerals #geology #VirginiaTech #VTGeosciences #Earth #earthscience

It’s time for another Fossil Friday!! #Museum #Fossils #Paleontology #VirginiaTech #VTGeosciences #Earth #Friday

Welcome to the wackiest Wednesday!!! #Museum #wednesday #VirginiaTech #earthsciences #VTGeosciences #geology #hokies

Drum roll for our next Tectonic Tuesday taking a look at a past event!! #Museum #tectonic #geophysics #VirginiaTech #Earth #mtsainthelens #VTGeosciences #tuesday

Time for our next Mineral Monday! #Museum #minerals #geology #VirginiaTech #VTGeosciences #Earth #earthscience

It’s time for our next Fossil Friday!!! #Museum #Fossils #Paleontology #VirginiaTech #VTGeosciences #Earth #Friday

It’s time for Tectonic Tuesdays! #tectonic #museum #virginiatech #vtgeosciences #Earth #EarthSciences #GEOS #geophysics

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

A Glossopteris leaf - found across the southern continents - from around 250 million years ago #FossilFriday 🌏⚒🌿🔬🌱

A rare copper mineral kröhnkite from the Chuquicamata mine, Chile, one the largest open pit copper mines and where mining has occurred for thousands of years. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

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 #FossilFriday

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

Recrystallized quartz-rich aplite, now a mylonite. The magma that intruded the shear zone... #geology #granite

Apophyllite from the Deccan Traps in India! #MineralMonday

How many trilobites do you see in the shale?🔍 Happy #FossilFriday! #Trilobite

Kicking off #MineralMonday with some gorgeous ruby in zoisite collected from Tanzania.

Happy #FossilFriday with Lepidodendron!

Happy #MineralMonday with Fluorite!

Happy #FossilFriday! Here is a cast of Coelophysis bauri.

Happy #MineralMonday with calcite and barite from Spain.

Did you know oreodont teeth can fluoresce a bright peachy-orange color when exposed to UV light? Happy #FossilFriday!

Happy #MineralMonday. Today, we have gorgeous gold within ore rock. This specimen was collected in Silverton, Colorado.

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!

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!

Happy #MineralMonday! We have a gorgeous piece of quartz with dolomite collected from Bahia, Brazil.

Happy #FossilFriday from VT rex!

Don't you just love fluorescent minerals? See more at our Museum! #Mineral