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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGeology Tweets (one of my favorite Twitter accounts):
https://twitter.com/GeologyTime
Some pics of recent tweets:
Transparent Blue Cube Fluorite with Calcite on Smoky quartz crystal
Chalcopyrite on Dolomite
Iridiscent Hematite wih tiny quartz crystals
Dark purple Fluorite cluster
Pyrite
Ammolite
Okenite crystals (insert Trump joke here)
Some pics of recent tweets:
Transparent Blue Cube Fluorite with Calcite on Smoky quartz crystal
Chalcopyrite on Dolomite
Iridiscent Hematite wih tiny quartz crystals
Dark purple Fluorite cluster
Pyrite
Ammolite
Okenite crystals (insert Trump joke here)
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Geology Tweets (one of my favorite Twitter accounts): (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jul 2019
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MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)1. How fun and interesting is this?
Ill be following this account from now on. Thank you!
samnsara
(17,635 posts)2. beautiful!
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)3. I know a couple of places in AZ where you can find Wulfenite
I used to hunt for them in some very tight spots deep underground in "non active" silver mines.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)4. That last photo
looks like something... can't put my finger on it.
Marthe48
(17,019 posts)5. Lovely!
I read geology as a hobby and we did collect rocks, minerals and fossils.
You can go to Hueston Woods State Park in western Ohio and collect fossils, as long as you aren't doing it for resale. We had a great time walking in the river bed and finding horns, and some other goodies