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My favorite plush works I've done #PlushArtist #transformers #plushie #macaddam

311 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Benstonite: - A carbonate mineral containing barium - Fluoresces red under UV and x-rays - Forms in baryte deposits and in some carbonatites - Named after Orlando J. Benston (1901-1966) an American ore metallurgist who collected the first specimens #minerals

An old wolf trots towards your campfire. -2022

Geoscientist's Ruth Allington recently attended the launch event for @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social's new book The Whispers of Rock, which @volcanologist.bsky.social describes as "a gift to Earth science" in her review: geoscientist.online/sections/boo... #geoscience #geology #earthscience #bookreview

This is one of my favorites!!! It's also often mistaken for fossils because it can form these dendritic patterns in rock. It's beautiful!!

310 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Pyrolusite: - Mineral form of manganese dioxide - A very common manganese mineral - An important manganese ore - Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings - Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals

Are you ready? ⚡ The next (and last) ticket release for the Pokémon x Natural History Museum pop-up shop is coming soon! Here’s how to get tickets ⬇️

309 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Ruby: - The red/pink variety of corundum - Its colour is caused by chromium - Heat treatment can improve its colour - 9 on the Mohs hardness scale - Its name comes from the Latin word "ruber" (red) #minerals

We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest! 🔷 Azurite 🟩 Malachite They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours! 📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry 🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History

308 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Diopside: - Pyroxene mineral - Forms in ultramafic igneous rocks, xenoliths & metamorphic rocks - Can turn into chrysotile when hydrothermally altered - Name comes from the Greek "dis" (twice) & "òpsè" (face) because its vertical prism can be orientated in two ways #minerals

We’re so excited to share our exclusive Christmas jumper with you! 🦖🎄

So yeah, uh, if anyone wants to hire a scientist next year, hit me up. My specialties include Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, astrobiology, plastic pollution, environmental degradation, meteorites, and Mars

307 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Hummerite: - A potassium magnesium vanadate mineral - Forms via the leaching of vanadium oxide ores - Named after its type locality Hummer Mine in Paradox Valley, Colorado, USA #minerals #MineralMonday

306 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Leadhillite: - A carbonate mineral - Has a high density since it contains lead (~2.5 times more dense than quartz) - Can be yellow, blue or green - Forms in the oxidised zone of lead deposits - Named after Leadhills in Scotland, its type locality #minerals #MineralMonday

305 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Sylvanite: - A telluride mineral - Contains gold and silver - Forms in hydrothermal vein deposits - Named after sylvanium, the obsolete name for the element tellurium. Its name is also partially derived from Transylvania, where it was discovered #minerals #MineralMonday

MCM absolutely sucked for sales, so I’m having a blast sale on my shop for the next 2 days, 10% off everything 🫠 I uploaded a tonne of new stickers and restocked the glasses cloths though! blacksmoke1033.etsy.com

I messed up the thread again so had to repost some #365Minerals!

I don't usually do #MineralMonday, but sorting through some photos taken back in 2014 on a visit to the island arc volcanoes of the Kuril Islands north of Japan, I came across these spiky native sulphur crystals precipitated around a fumarole vent.

#OreCup is launching with two famous & beloved ore minerals, #Galena vs #Copper! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... You have 24 hours to campaign. Go!

With ONE DAY until #OreCup, we got into the gritty details of what is a mineral, what is an ore, and what is an ore mineral. Check out the definitions at the bottom of the About page below the bracket: www.mineralcup.org/about-ore-cup

304 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Hematite: - Very common iron oxide mineral - Its red powder is used as a pigment - Forms in a variety of volcanic, sedimentary & metamorphic environments - Its name comes from the Greek words "αιματίτις λίθος/aematitis lithos" (blood stone) because of its red colour #minerals

Halloween costume idea: sexy unlabelled museum specimen

I just watched Pan's Labyrinth for the first time. I'm glad I managed to make it almost 20 years without seeing any spoilers. What a film! 💯

The pack’s ready for a howling good Halloween! 🎃🐺

I'm proud to announce my latest pin design! These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles! Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt

#FossilFriday a 1.5 Ga fossil filaments preserved in 3D, exposed on an etched bedding plane. These are from a secret location and there are masses of these things in this sample. They were internally silicified after being entombed in clay. Deets in the alt text. #Geology #Paleontology #Fossil

Paint made from this mineral is also magnetic! I made a video demonstrating it: youtu.be/cqKENs4yGNk

303 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Glauconite: - A mica group mineral - Forms in marine environments - Turns yellow when oxidised - The "green earth" pigment is made from glauconite - Its name comes from the Greek word "γλαυκός/glaukos" (blue-green) because of its colour #minerals

302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Smoky Quartz: - A grey to black variety of quartz - Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation - Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat - Forms in igneous rocks #minerals

301 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Kaolinite: - A clay mineral - Forms via the weathering of aluminium silicate (e.g. feldspar in granite) - Used in the production of paper, ceramics, toothpaste, cosmetics... - Named after its type locality Gaoling, China #minerals

300 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Arthurite: - An arsenate mineral - Forms in the oxidation zone of copper deposits or via the alteration of arsenopyrite and enargite - Named after Arthur Kingsbury (1906-1968) & Arthur Russell (1878-1964), two British mineral collectors/mineralogists #minerals #MineralMonday

299 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Spherocobaltite: - A carbonate mineral - Found in hydrothermal deposits containing cobalt - Named for its spherical shape and cobalt composition #minerals

Everyone: "Your body falls apart when you reach your 30s" Me in my 30s: *can finally touch my toes for the first time in ages*

A selection of posters that I’ve done for various clients! Metallica, Trivium, Smashing Pumpkins, and BioWare (Dragon Age)

298 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Sampleite: - A phosphate mineral - Forms in oxidised copper deposits - Also forms when phosphate in bat guano reacts with copper sulphide - Named after Mat Sample, former superintendent of the Chile Exploration Company #minerals

Don't forget to move your rocks one hour backwards tonight as we go from BST (British Sedimentary Time) to GMT (Greenwich Metamorphic Time) ⚒ #geology

With the clocks going back tonight, it means the sun will rise an hour sooner tomorrow morning 🌅 However, it will also mean that the nights will draw in an hour earlier with longer evenings to come 🌃

297 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Triplite: - A phosphate mineral - Forms in phosphate-rich granitic pegmatites and hydrothermal veins - Its name comes from the Greek word "τριπλόος/triplos" (triple) because of its three cleavage planes #minerals

10 days until the start of #OreCup and we have a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket

296 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Natroalunite: - A sulphate mineral - The sodium rich version of alunite - Forms when sulphate bearing soultions react with clay - Its name comes from the Latin word "natrium" (sodium) and "alunite" #minerals

For those of you who are fans of geology and Pokémon cards:

I did three tours in the Mineral Gallery today and I feel like this:

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Etendeka alkaline dolerite for #ThinSectionThursday. XPL view showing vibrant, equant olivine crystals (mid-right), and classic ophitic texture of plagioclase laths (black and white) surrounded by very large clinopyroxenes. 🧪⚒️