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Parisite

A prominent dike

When the Whiskey Froze

Geyserite

Bindheimite

Portland Canal

Daisy Stones

Copper

Halloysite

The gravity of the situation

Smythite

Zealandia

Antimony

Chaco Canyon

Micas of Bancroft

Issyk-Kul

Shrimp

Hemimorphite

Slot Canyons

Smith Rock

London Hills

Flexible Sandstone

Asbestos

Urengoy

Oil on calcite

Camp Davis Formation

Spotted Rocks

Aurichalcite vs. rosasite

Mapping: changes over time

Agate

Megatherium

Carmichael ultramafics

Maroon Bells

Cholla Cat

Delhi’s Red Fort

Steens Basalt

Hübnerite

Kink bands

Cavansite

Brushy Canyon

Gold?

Molokaʻi

Petrified wood

Garnets

Nenana, Alaska

Star muscovite

Gulf of Tonkin

Verde antique

Apatite with actinolite

Krivoy Rog

First there is a mountain

Oregon sunstone

Youngite

The chalk cliffs of Dover

Lowland Creek Volcanics Flow Fold

Leakeite

Phreatic Friday

Axinite

Dimetrodon

Muzo habit

Dendrites

Seven Falls

Hidden hemimorphite

The Central African Copperbelt

The Tetons

Smithsonite

Makoshika

Uralite

Gossan

The Ogallala Aquifer

Mineral Monday

The Irkutsk Amphitheater

The Blue Lizard

Quartz after anhydrite

Bullion Mine near Basin, Montana USA

Cottonwood Canyon

Orbicular chalcedony

Tanah Lot

Scapolite

Etchings on a topaz crystal

Mumbai High Oil Field

Sodalite-Syenite

Plumose calcite

San Martin Mines

Raton Basin

Callaghanite

Mottramite

Dinwoody and Lingula

Tyuyamunite

Perovskite

I is for Ignimbrite

Red Topaz

Mineralogy Meets Paleontology

The Flat Tops

Xocomecatlite

Madagascar

Location, location, location

Ferrostrunzite

Discovering the Inner Core of the Earth

H is for Hopper

Fuchsite

Tectonics happens at all scales

Almadén

Blanca Peak

Surface textures

An unexpectedly linear magnetic anomaly

Andalusite

The Yubileinaya Pegmatite

Baku

Negative Crystals

G is for Glaucophane

New Eddystone Rock

Dolomite

The Russo-Japanese War and Fossil Friday

Francis M. Hueber

Chessy

The Bakken

Discovering a New Mineral

Things Minerals Can Do #2

Clinker

Geology is everywhere

Tiny Treasure

A tale of two columbites

The Calvert Tungsten Mine

Oslo Fjord

Mineralogy meets Paleontology #2

Hutchinsonite

James Hutton

Mt Hosmer

F is for Fort Wayne Fluorite

Tin

Mineralogy meets Paleontology

Folds in Algeria

Campylite

Carbonatites

Mount Nebo

Things Minerals Can Do

E is for Exfoliation

When the Amazon flowed west

The Green Monster

Empire Mine

Little Giant

Thanks

D is for diabase, dolerite, diorite, and dike

Ettringite or Sturmanite?

Memorial Falls

A remarkably straight line

It’s from Lake Jaco

Traces

C is for Cumbria

Starry, starry night

Celsius meets Fahrenheit

The Mountains of Nebraska and Kansas

Melanophlogite

Anorthoclase

B is for Butte

A record: 13,200,000 barrels per day

Fun with Labels