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have you obtained any cool rocks recently?

I recently acquired this gorgeous Apache Tear obsidian nodule!

While in the American Southwest these obsidian nodules are nicknamed "Apache Tears," the mineralogical name for this stuff is marekanite!

(So, like, an aside. Usually when the healy-feely folks claim a stone has some association with a "native american legend" they are making it up and being weirdly fetishistic of those cultures. Looking at you, labradorite. But as far as I can tell, this stone really does get its name from a legitimate Apache legend. If anyone of that culture feels like chiming in, I would love to learn more about it.)

Anyway, Apache Tears are cool stuff. Here's how they form.

A volcano erupts, and deposits a lava flow which cools super rapidly. It cools so rapidly that it doesn't have time to grow crystals and become a rock, and instead hardens into a black, volcanic glass called obsidian. Over about ten thousand years, groundwater slowly infiltrates this obsidian. The water gradually changes it into a white stone called perlite. But within that mass of perlite, nodules of the original obsidian remain, looking like glassy black marbles. Those are Apache Tears!

This specimen came from Arizona, where volcanic activity has been going on for over two million years! You can see some white perlite still sticking to it. This piece is HUGE for an Apache Tear, which typically don't get much bigger than your thumbnail!

#neat!

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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

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#I would much rather be cold than hot

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speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

#wow #art #snakes

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monkyeon’s stickchuck has me in tears 💀

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call me the cashier cause im tryin to get some trans action, you feel me?

#sure I’ll reblog that

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#video

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I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!

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TEMUERA MORRISON AND MING-NA WEN JOKING ABOUT JANGO’S DECAPITATION

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#I love them

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Rainbow mo

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what happened to the skeleton war, you guys used to love the skeleton war

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you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

#I got head boops from one of my cats

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

#snakes #I love this

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You know what we never got. Omega with her hair down.

Please excuse my poor editing skills. But I wanted to see what she would look like in the style of the show.

#she’s so pretty

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#muppet baby big bird! #I’ve still got him too #poor thing is worn down and kinda ugly but I’ve still got ‘im

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I had a vision and I had to put it on paper