Although molybdenite is most useful for technical purposes, it’s dioptase that attracts simply by its beauty.

bsky.app/profile/clim... #RateOfChange #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

#Carpathite is composed of hydrothermally deposited coronene. Coronene is also proxy for wildfire activity, a function of terrestrial biomass, atmospheric O2, and ignition sources like lightning, volcanoes, and bolides. The oldest known occurrence on Earth dates to the early Ediacarian. #MinCup25

⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far. With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:

Quick video about the M7.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, including an animation from @earthscope.org showing the seismic waves detected by seismic stations across North America. 🧪

Such a beautiful blue color as that of #hauyne can’t be matched, even if crystals are usually very small.

Lately, photographer Ragnar Visage started sharing video footage of past Iceland eruptions and I feel like no one sees it. Check out this video and his channel. So mesmerizing! ⚒️🧪 #Geology 🌋 youtu.be/aSOdrS2R3jA?...

Let the scroll go for 180 seconds and bask in this haunting ariette by Baroque composer Mlle. Guesdon de Presles—radiant, fine-spun, unforgettable. Performed by Sophie de Bardonnèche with Lucile Boulanger and Justin Taylor. #ClassicalMusic youtube.com/watch?v=s0t4...

A difficult choice, as both minerals make wonderful crystals. Yet my favorite is #Kyanite

The huge minerals collection “terra mineralia” in Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany, is certainly one of the most respected minerals museums worldwide, a true gem and must-have-been for any lover of minerals. Besides, the small town Freiberg is a good place for a stay.

Mineral Matters # 763 - What is Parallel Growth? #mineralmatters #minerals #🧪 open.substack.com/pub/mineralm...

Did Earth’s first continents form in subduction zones? Me and Alan Hastie think so! Why? Read in detail here in Journal of Petrology doi.org/10.1093/petr... The take home: Melting @ < 60km ➡️ No rutile ➡️ no Nb anomaly ➡️ no continental crust signature. Rutile + garnet only stable at ≥60 km.

Mineral Matters # 742 - What's in a Name - Deweylite #mineralmatters #minerals #🧪 open.substack.com/pub/mineralm...

Is America already a rotten country ?

Ermita de Santa Maria de la Hoz, Tobera, Spain. What a wonderful place.

Holding the head in its hands is still better than having lost the head.

A good wine in a nice wine bar in Bordeaux is always admired.

House facade painted with ancient motifs in Dole, France. Looks astonishing real.

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A nice ammonite

Right away, sir! 😀 geologyistheway.com/the-rosso-am...

🧪 US brain drain!! Germany to create ‘super–high-tech ministry’ for research, technology, and aerospace | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s an amazing autumn day in Joburg! Just enjoying the laidback Saturday vibes at one of my favourite friendly local spots in Richmond. It’s good to be home. Hope your weekend’s treating you well! ❤️🌳🍂

I KNOW I am the product of white male privilege. What is so wrong with giving EVERYONE the same opportunities I was given? Only the supremely weak and insecure would oppose this. Apparently, there are a lot of weak and insecure white men in our country.

On the positive side, at least we have her anti-science, blinded-by-religious ideology screed on tape.

Beautiful ruins are everywhere in this region of Italy. Some have been renovated into amazing (if small) houses. And the view isn’t too shabby either!

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Long ago in the Hadean, when the Earth was young, its surface layer we inhabit (the crust) was formed. It might be that the formation of that initial crust was just part of planetary mass differentiation and stratification. 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A devastatingly strong magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar. Global Seismographic Network (GSN) stations around the world recorded the waves from this earthquake.

Obsessed with this photo of peridotite → serpentinite by (I think?) O. Plümper (University of Bremen). It shows ultramafic "kernstones" w/ a geometry similar to my granite outcrop below, surrounded by hydrothermally altered rock. ⚒️ Source serpentinedays.org/webinar/serp..., via @eageo.bsky.social

Once, this was a maple leaf

This is my well-preserved, beautiful Diplomystus dentatus fossil from the Green River Formation, Wyoming. Eocene, about 50 million years old. Check out the details. #fossilfriday #fossil

A serpentinite mesh texture for #ThinsectionThursday. Or is it a piece of modern art? 🖌️ Note how there are several generations of serpentine, among them a clear one that filled the first fractures, and a dark one (full of magnetite) that replaced the rest of the olivine.

Musk government-slashing group has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics making mistakes harder to find. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

If you missed it - this is @chrismurphyct.bsky.social describing the transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the very wealthy, happening right now youtu.be/MXZuHf7LMZE?...

That man says whatever and should never ever have gotten the level of power he has. Only thing that he has ever done is a failure upwards by lying about everything at any time.

Hey team. The resistance rallying cry must be to declare trump a traitor and to demand his impeachment. If it gets loud enough, believe it or not, congress WILL act. #traitortrump #impeachtrump steady.substack.com/p/chaos-comp...

For anyone looking to understand this traitor's actions, it's truly this simple. There is no other explanation. #TraitorTrump

The problem with CNN and other U.S media I fear is that they keep inviting Donald Trump propagandist and treating them like they have normal views on what is going on. They do not. Their whole thing is propaganda and nothing else. Donald Trump supporters should be excluded from the discussion.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

🔴America First? No, It's Trump First Matt Bernardini examines the myriad ways in which Donald Trump is using his Presidency to enrich himself. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/america-fi...

#eclogite, the most beautiful rock type on earth.😍

Remarkable and very drastic tapestry on the wall of the Iglesia de Santa Ursula, Adele, Tenerife. Depicting a biblical scene where an angel prevents a man from beheading a woman, with a pyre next to it, crass.

I spoke with Mercedes & BMW about how they're asking Germans to vote and oppose extremism in Sunday's election. Mercedes says the AfD would be bad for business. Dozens of businesses have gotten together to make the call, which I covered in a radio piece for Monocle and for its newsletter:

Mushrooms growing on soil next to a pine, both blackened by forest fire. #Tenerife #fungifriends, #fungifriday

The cabochon looks as if it has a deep blue color, thus it could be Lapis lazuli.