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  1. #ICYMI “rocks are best understood not as nouns but verbs, signifying events and processes…Herein lies Earth’s secret to wrinkling time…Accepting that we too live in geologic time can free us from narcissism…We may then realize that the text of the Earth itself is full of guidance on durable design and start laying the groundwork for a post-Anthropocene world” emergencemagazine.org/essay/wr via @emergencemagazine re: #deeptime #geologictime + more

  2. A #macrophotography #photo of a #quartz #crystal and the #rock matrix it started to grow on. Projections and partial #terminations, as well as rock #inclusions give character and color to the otherwise milky #translucence or #transparent #color of pure #silicondioxide #SiO2.
    It’s #interesting (to 🦊 Fox, the #photographer) that SiO2 is a clear analog of #carbondioxide #CO2. #Silicon and #carbon are both in the same #Group on the #PeriodicTable (#IUPAC #Group14 to physicists, #GroupIV). But on the #Earth, SiO2 #crystallizes. Under what #conditions does CO2 crystallize? What do CO2 crystals that have grown over #geologictime look like?
    Sometimes 🦊 wonders odd things.
    heronfox.pixels.com/featured/q

  3. A #macrophotography #photo of a #quartz #crystal and the #rock matrix it started to grow on. Projections and partial #terminations, as well as rock #inclusions give character and color to the otherwise milky #translucence or #transparent #color of pure #silicondioxide #SiO2.
    It’s #interesting (to 🦊 Fox, the #photographer) that SiO2 is a clear analog of #carbondioxide #CO2. #Silicon and #carbon are both in the same #Group on the #PeriodicTable (#IUPAC #Group14 to physicists, #GroupIV). But on the #Earth, SiO2 #crystallizes. Under what #conditions does CO2 crystallize? What do CO2 crystals that have grown over #geologictime look like?
    Sometimes 🦊 wonders odd things.
    heronfox.pixels.com/featured/q