Posts tagged: rocks
my pretty rocks
Manganite with Calcite
Ilfeld, Thuringia, Germany
Pale yellow Prehnite
Desert Rose (rosette formation of gypsum and barite)
In North American native mythology, it was believed that desert roses were carved by the spirits of dead warriors. They are found widely scattered, and the belief is that this is so no one will know where the spirits gather.
Green prehnite ball on cluster of dark green and lustrous epidote.~Warsaw, Poland source
Vivianite
In the typical killas matrix of the St Agnes area, is a quite lustrous group of Vivianite crystals (to 7mm) and on the edges of the matrix are fragments of purple Fluorite.
Galena
A large bright cubo-octahedral multi crystal of Galena from the classic Nikolaevskiy Mine.
Zumaya, Spain by ProfSimonHaslett on Flickr
“The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary section at Zumaya, Spain (the boundary is in front of the person on the bottom left).”
Mahoosive Ammonite
