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itsfullofstars:

New satellite images of our home planet and its rivers released by NASA.

(via geologyrocks)

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earth-and-space:

Australia: Mesoarchean banded iron from about 2.8 billion years ago.

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inlovewithgeosciences:

Prismatic disjunction! =D
“ZLATY URCH, GOLD MOUNTAIN, Basalt quarry, Liska, Ceske Svycarsko National Park, Czech Republic”

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geologyrocks:

Yes. Yes it does.

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geologyrocks:

The result of my mapping project in Rainbow Basin, CA.
Geology is the Shist!

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thebumblebees:

Fulgurites (from the Latin fulgur meaning thunderbolt) are natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartsoze sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes. They are formed when lightning with a temperature of at least 1,800 °C (3,270 °F) instantaneously melts silica on a conductive surface and fuses grains together; the fulgurite tube is the cooled product.
In 1996 the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing excavated this fulgurite to a depth of nearly 6 meters, then removed it for museum display.
(via wikipedia and Lightning Research Laboratory (UF))

We have some rather striking ones on display here at the UMMNH.

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(Source: kateoplis, via villain-inamorata)

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Beautiful Ijen (by tropicaLiving - Jessy Eykendorp)
Ijen Crater is a nature reserve Ijen Park is located between Banyuwangi and Bondowoso District, East Java, Indonesia. This crater exactly located at the top of Mount Ijen which is one of a series of volcanoes in East Java such as Bromo, Semeru and Merapi. Another uniqueness of this crater has a level of acidity is very high with almost close to zero and the temperature of the water is 20° Celsius. In addition to elevation 2,799 m (9,183 ft) Posis crater is located in the middle of the largest caldera on the island of Java. The caldera size about 20 miles. The crater size is about 960 meters x 600 meters with a depth of 200 meters. This crater is located at a depth of more than 300 meters below the caldera wall.
This crater is a large lake with a bluish-green mist and smoke of the sulfur that is stunning. In addition, cold air with temperatures 10° Celsius, the temperature might reach 2° Celsius will increase the sensation of its own experience. Various plants that exist only in the highlands can also be found here, such as Edelweis Flowers and Pine.

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