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melusina · 14 days
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Vanadinite, Black Prince Mine, Arizona, photo by Daniel Journet
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melusina · 20 days
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melusina · 20 days
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I made this image for my geology loving friend
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melusina · 23 days
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Just a nice gif of some cool polysynthetic twins :)
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melusina · 23 days
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while i'm on the subject of making bad takes about geology in pop culture, im. so tired of the first response everyone has when they hear i studying geology being:
"haha so do you eat rocks? which rocks do geologists eat?"
... it's salt, man. you already know the answer to this. theres one answer and its salt. and you eat it every day and its normal.
its the most boring question to answer. geologists eat rocks because everyone eats rocks. because salt is a rock. it's the "so it's free, right?" when the barcode doesn't scan at the cash register of geology questions.
sure, if you want to get a little frisky with it, you can throw in how kaolin is used as a texture enhancer in ice cream and how the titanium dioxide that makes oreo cream so white derives from rutile, but the answer they're actually looking for is salt. and at that point whoever has asked you that has already stopped giving a shit, because the mental image they had of geologists shoving glittering green crystals into their mouths has already vaporized and they've realized just how boring the question they just asked really is.
you could have asked me about volcanoes or the bottom of the ocean and instead you asked me a question with the boringest answer imaginable. you learned one fact about me, which is that i study the processes that make lava explode and crystals grow, and you looked me, a human being, dead in the eyes, and asked me if i eat salt. and were disappointed when the answer was just yeah. you know what? how about next time, instead, lets both sit down in an empty room and stare at the wall together in silence until we wither away into skeletons. would that be more interesting to you?
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melusina · 23 days
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i’m broadly neutral about the twilight fandom and i’m happy y’all are enjoying yourselves in this age of vampire romance renaissance. however. as a scientist. i will never forgive what you bastards did to the word effervescent
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melusina · 23 days
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Nicola Samorì
Grande grottesco (2022), oil on onyx
La luce è un buco (2019), oil on onyx
Jacob (2019), oil on onyx
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melusina · 23 days
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Probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen yet on this job. Copper metal encased in calcite crystal!!
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melusina · 23 days
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Totally crazy interference colors on a calcite (carbonitite) thin section
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melusina · 23 days
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i’m broadly neutral about the twilight fandom and i’m happy y’all are enjoying yourselves in this age of vampire romance renaissance. however. as a scientist. i will never forgive what you bastards did to the word effervescent
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melusina · 24 days
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melusina · 26 days
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Quartz | Andilamena Quarries, Alaotra-Mangoro, Madagascar
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melusina · 28 days
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melusina · 29 days
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we should talk about water more often that shit is crazy
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melusina · 1 month
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The dimension of the waterline structure in the center is in perfect harmony with the surrounding botryoidal formation. Parallax Agate
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melusina · 1 month
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i like geology and im good at it until i dont and im not
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melusina · 2 months
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8 Months - Brendon Burton
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