Another Guess the Gem!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: it forms a series with pollucite. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
The answer to this Guess the Gem is analcime!! This one is from Mont Saint-Hilaire, where massive crystals have been found. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
These skull pieces of Mosasaurus hoffmanni make up the first Mosasaur skull found all the way back in 1780!! #FossilFriday⚒️🧪
Guess the Gem time!! What mineral or variety do you think this gem is? Hint: this variety is typically associated with the colour blue. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Erika Anderson
Erika Anderson
Erika Anderson
Erika Anderson
Another Guess the Gem!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: it forms a series with pollucite. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Can you see the dragonfly-like insect in this rock? It’s a Mischoptera, a Paleozoic insect!! #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪
Erika Anderson
Look at the colours in these opal nodules!! These are in rhyolite, a type of volcanic rock. #MineralMonday (well Mineraloid Monday) #VolcanoMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪🌋
Erika Anderson
Erika Anderson
When we want to know what the rocks are under our towns, we use a special drill that can collect long cylinders of rock hundreds of feet below the surface. This core, collected under Reading, punched through a fossil layer, scooping up ancient shells and even a beautiful sea urchin! #fossilfriday
Museums hold collections for a reason: “Perhaps, he says, the next big breakthrough in charting our solar system’s deepest history won’t come from exploring some distant world but rather from studying samples of space rocks …from a drawer in a museum.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...
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Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history
The answer to the Guess the Gem is padparadscha sapphire!! This is the pink orange variety of sapphire, the more commonly blue variety of the mineral species corundum. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Grape chalcedony, made up of quartz and moganite, from Indonesia. Another one that looks like candy, but no eating!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
Dr Thomas Clements
Erika Anderson
Guess the Gem time!! What mineral or variety do you think this gem is? Hint: this variety is typically associated with the colour blue. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
