Took some time to document some of the geology in Falls Lake, NC. Falls Lake has some very diverse geology along its banks, and it provides great outcrops in a place where exposed rock is hard to come by.
#rocks #geology #minerals #earth #science
Hey folks, there's lots of snow on the ground, so I figured it'd be a great time to talk about a silly technicality. Frozen water is a mineral, and it functions as such especially in places like outer space and glaciers.
#geology #snow #furry #fursuit #sand
Galena is a lead sulphide mineral, that usually forms in deposits created by hydrothermal fluids. It has a metallic luster with a beautiful bluish grey color to it. Typically it forms in either massive chunks as in veins or as cubic crystals inside pockets.
#rocks #minerals #geology #mining #galena
Hey folks, today I'm sharing one of my more recent additions to my collection, a Chalcopyrite sample from the quarry I visited last month.
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#nature
These clips were filmed in Wake County, NC between 9 PM and midnight. Conditions were approaching that of a blizzard at times.
#snow #snowstorm #snowfall #winter #weather
Happy Fursuit Friday! This week's rocks is a huge sample of Pyrophyllite from Orange County, North Carolina. It's formed in environments where igneous rocks have been chemically altered by hot fluids running through them.
#geology #rocks #minerals #fursuits #furry
Vanadinite is a Vanadium bearing Phosphate mineral that occurs in the oxidizing zones of lead deposits. It's frequently found in the form of beautiful red to red hexagonal crystals, and makes a great collectors mineral. This one comes from Morocco.
#geology #rocks #minerals #red #crystals
Happy Fursuit Friday Folks! This rock has two types of fossils, Chondrites, a trace fossil common in deep ocean rocks and Brachiopods, a clam-like animal that had an external attachment to the ocean floor.
#geology #fursuits #furry #rocks #fossils
Yes, it's topaz, that's been confirmed by XRF and EMP analysis. Note that Topaz has four main faces forming a sorta diamond shape, while quartz has six. That's the easiest way to distinguish them in hand samples. Also please don't assume every crystal point is a quartz specimen.
Happy Halloween, yappin' about rocks that I'll be passing out at Carolina Furfare. This is coal from Sharon, West Virginia, and it dates back to around 315 million years ago. At this time West Virginia was covered by an ancient swamp.
#geology #rocks #halloween #furry #fursuit
Here's a closer look at Henry the Sea Scorpion! Here I'm using a macro lens to showcase some of the more intricate details of this fossil. The high quality preservation allows for very subtle details of this prehistoric predator to be preserved.
#geology #fossils #rocks #crystals
#paleontology
Running through the anatomy of Henry The Sea Scorpion. Anatomy is a hugely important part of Paleontology, and understanding the anatomy of your fossils will tell you a lot about the animal that left it behind.
#paleontology #geology #fossil #fossils #fossilhunting
These Brachiopods would have lived in a shallow ocean that covered much of ancestral North America some 420 million years ago. Simple animals, they lived anchored to the ocean floor and fed in microorganisms drifting in the water column.
#geology #fossils #rocks #minerals
#furry
Here are some samples of Kyanite Schist from Wake County, North Carolina. Kyanite is a metamorphic mineral that is found in rocks that were altered at high temperatures and pressures. It most commonly occurs as clusters of blue blade-like crystals.
#kyanite #crystals #minerals #geology #rocks
You can hear the plague in my voice, on antibiotics and hoping to be better by the weekend. This is a sample of Tourmaline from the Crabtree Emerald Mine, NC. Tourmaline is a mineral most commonly found as elongated black crystals in igneous rocks.
#geology #rocks #minerals #tourmaline #crystal
Dyed Rocks 🤢
Real talk though they're fine I just prefer my natural colored samples.
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Pyromorphite from the Wheatley Mines in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This lead phosphate mineral is famous for its rich green, barrel shaped crystals.
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Pyromorphite from the Wheatley Mines of Chester County, Pennsylvania. I received these as part of a large, early acquisition that included numerous mineral samples from some rather famous Pennsylvania mines.
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Macrophotography of rubies from Chunky Gal Mountain in Clay County, NC. I collected these from an abandoned corundum prospect at the end of July.
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My furry hot take is that Barq isn't really bad at all for meeting folks, some of y'all just suck at catching red flags and are afraid to be judgemental to a detrimental extent.
The homeschooling trend is gonna suck in like 5-10 years when all the unsocialized losers get abandoned by their parents whom they're completely dependent on.
Fault line depicted by a crack in an outcrop of reddish brown sandstone.
An American Giant Millipede, shown crawling amongst the leaves.
View of the Potomac River, with the bank and fallen logs.
Collected samples for CFF from the Balls Bluff Siltstone, part of the Bull Run Formation, which in itself is part of the Newark Supergroup. This formation is 202.5- 201.4 million years old, and outcrops along the Potomac River, in Virginia.
#geology #rocks #cff2025 #virginia
I get my coal straight from the source, no middle man bullshit, I refuse to pay someone else to extract fossil fuels, I will gather carbon emitting pollutants myself.
(Kanawha Formation- 312-320 Ma; Kanawha County, West Virginia)
#geology #rocks #mining #coal #westvirginia
Coal is taking over this feed until I get done processing all of these samples to pass out at CFF this year.
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Samples of Anthracite Coal from Sharon, West Virginia. Part of the Pennsylvanian Aged Kanawha Formation, which represents a 312-320 million year old swampland ecosystem.
#geology #rocks #coal #mining #westvirginia
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My actual good social is my Instagram, the_fox_with_the_rocks! I don't really maintain Twitter or Bluesky in a meaningful way RN
How many of these do you need to get before your legally considered a popufur?
If you receive less services without less taxes, your getting robbed by your government.
