#rockhound — Public Fediverse posts

Some #rocktumbling progress #rock #rocks #rockhound

You guys! How did this get to be a semi-viral post! Or are all the visitors from Scotland, ha-ha! I just knew there were a lot of Scottish folk using Mastodon. #Scotland #Scottish #Geology #RockHound #Art #Map

You guys! How did this get to be a semi-viral post! Or are all the visitors from Scotland, ha-ha! I just knew there were a lot of Scottish folk using Mastodon. #Scotland #Scottish #Geology #RockHound #Art #Map

Something for friends in Scotland! I’ve followed so many this last year—Glasgow,architecture,history, geology, landscape photography, and more. I hope you like this screenshot from Reddit and a link if you want to read the story from OP, credited. #Scotland #Scottish, #Geology #RockHound #Art #Map
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/gzzjLRNZe9

Something for friends in Scotland! I’ve followed so many this last year—Glasgow,architecture,history, geology, landscape photography, and more. I hope you like this screenshot from Reddit and a link if you want to read the story from OP, credited. #Scotland #Scottish, #Geology #RockHound #Art #Map
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/gzzjLRNZe9

Yay! The Christmas gift my hubs got me finally arrived. In barrel one: a mix of agates and one piece of jasper. In barrel two, snowflake obsidian. I am SO happy! #rockhound #rockpolishing #rocktumbling #rocks #rock

Rock hunting in NE Michigan. I found Petoskey stones and one red agate with a geode pocket. Plus the big crinoid stone. . #rockhound #rocks #Petoskey #fossils

Rock hunting in NE Michigan. I found Petoskey stones and one red agate with a geode pocket. Plus the big crinoid stone. . #rockhound #rocks #Petoskey #fossils

Petoskey stone in the garden. #rockhound #michigan #coralfossil

Petoskey stone in the garden. #rockhound #michigan #coralfossil

Some of the beach rocks I've recently collected to add to our gardens. Soaking out the saltwater in a bucket.

#rocks #rockhound #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #geological #nature

Some of the beach rocks I've recently collected to add to our gardens. Soaking out the saltwater in a bucket.

#rocks #rockhound #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #geological #nature

A random focus stack i did yesterday, i've only done a few focus stacks (mostly astro focus stacks of Comet Atlas) so i need to practice to make sure i know all the steps before my next workshop...

there were 11 photos in this stack, and i think it still has issues, but sooner or later i've got to figure out how to photograph rocks since i have a huge collection 🤣

#MineralMonday #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Photography #Crystal #Quartz #RockCollection #Rockhound #FocusStack #AffinityPhoto2

A random focus stack i did yesterday, i've only done a few focus stacks (mostly astro focus stacks of Comet Atlas) so i need to practice to make sure i know all the steps before my next workshop...

there were 11 photos in this stack, and i think it still has issues, but sooner or later i've got to figure out how to photograph rocks since i have a huge collection 🤣

#MineralMonday #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Photography #Crystal #Quartz #RockCollection #Rockhound #FocusStack #AffinityPhoto2

Colorful UP rocks in a stream. #up ##northernmichigan #rockhound

A really nice Petoskey stone. #rockhound #fossils #petoskeystone #coral

Gourd with Petoskey stone insert. Living in northern Michigan allows me to find many beautiful stones to use in my art #PetoskeyStone #Gourd #Art #Nature #Rockhound

Gourd with Petoskey stone insert. Living in northern Michigan allows me to find many beautiful stones to use in my art #PetoskeyStone #Gourd #Art #Nature #Rockhound

City of Rocks State Park is one square mile in the Chihuahuan desert of SW #NewMexico. The boulders were deposited on the plains 34.9 million years ago when one of the volcanoes in the Black Range erupted. Camping, mountain biking, stargazing, hiking, wildlife viewing & birding.

#NewMexico #roadtrip #travel #daytrip #nature #hiking #offthebeatenpath #Deming #SilverCity #geology #rockhound #landscape #highdesert

City of Rocks State Park is one square mile in the Chihuahuan desert of SW #NewMexico. The boulders were deposited on the plains 34.9 million years ago when one of the volcanoes in the Black Range erupted. Camping, mountain biking, stargazing, hiking, wildlife viewing & birding.

#NewMexico #roadtrip #travel #daytrip #nature #hiking #offthebeatenpath #Deming #SilverCity #geology #rockhound #landscape #highdesert

A poor kid supported by a divorced working mother, the collections in the local natural history museum seemed out of reach. My brothers and I walked to the museum to wander the glass cases of stuffed birds. Creatures, I thought I'd never see in person. The rocks, many fossils collected only miles away, seemed from distant lands. They filled me with wonder. I collect rocks. I pulled from the earth. This is a piece of agatized wood under UV light.
#Rocks #Collectiing #rockHound #agatizedWood

Last Thursday, July 25, I went to dig for quartz crystals at a site hosted by the Forest Service. I've gone there a number of years. It has become more difficult to find crystals, because of over digging closer to the source rock. The chosen untouched location, turned to failure after hitting over leafing boulders, too big to move. I went to an already dug site, to dig deeper down. There was nothing.

#rockhound #rockCollecting #crystals #mining #rocks #collecting

Trying to log some genuinely good moments with tourists before I get cynical. This week a family came in and when I was delivering their food, the child was looking at a cut rock. I commented "What a great little agate!" and the whole family was so obviously excited to have someone notice; they had just had their first #rockhound experience on a tour. Made me want to do the same. And it really was a nice one to me.

Marston Marble : Fossiliferous Limestone (contains ammonites) #geology #rockhound #jurassic https://www.geologyin.com/2024/06/marston-marble-ammonites.html

Marston Marble : Fossiliferous Limestone (contains ammonites) #geology #rockhound #jurassic https://www.geologyin.com/2024/06/marston-marble-ammonites.html

While not directly space-related, this piece of granite gave up its ancient home to help us delve deeper than ever into the Universe.

It comes from Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert, the summit of which was levelled ahead of the construction of the 39-metre diameter Extremely Large Telescope by the European Southern Observatory.

I picked it up in 2016 – the telescope is due to come online in 2028 ✨🔭

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #OfficeClearance #RockHound

While not directly space-related, this piece of granite gave up its ancient home to help us delve deeper than ever into the Universe.

It comes from Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert, the summit of which was levelled ahead of the construction of the 39-metre diameter Extremely Large Telescope by the European Southern Observatory.

I picked it up in 2016 – the telescope is due to come online in 2028 ✨🔭

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #OfficeClearance #RockHound

As I continue down my #CoastTimeYear I am increasingly wanting to find a local #rockhound with a lapidary saw who will take me agate hunting and cutting in exchange for cookies. #OregonCoast #PowerOfTheCookie #WillBarterWithPies

I make circles to remind myself that I am whole, to bring all the scattered aspects of myself together as one healthy, functional, interesting Self. The opposite of dissociating, the counterbalance to disconnectedness. I make a lot of circles, and I make them from the natural world which heals me.

#silentsunday #wales #seaside #nature #naturephotography #altars #altar #circles #healing #pagan #ritual #stones #rocks #rockhound #naturelovers #beach #rain #natureheals

I make circles to remind myself that I am whole, to bring all the scattered aspects of myself together as one healthy, functional, interesting Self. The opposite of dissociating, the counterbalance to disconnectedness. I make a lot of circles, and I make them from the natural world which heals me.

#silentsunday #wales #seaside #nature #naturephotography #altars #altar #circles #healing #pagan #ritual #stones #rocks #rockhound #naturelovers #beach #rain #natureheals

In case anyone out there wants to help encourage my rock tumbling habit. (I need more ceramic media. So I'm taking a chance someone will get me some. LOL)
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IKXKI0BT6B9J?ref_=wl_share
#rocktumbling #rocks #rockhound #rocktumblinghobby #wishlist

A first try at photographing my Selenite Pincushion

#mineral #RockHound #collections #RockCollection #crystals #crystal

A first try at photographing my Selenite Pincushion

#mineral #RockHound #collections #RockCollection #crystals #crystal

i voted for quartz #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz

You can add your vote for this beautiful & versatile mineral here https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

#crystals #rockhound #quartz #Hobbies

i voted for quartz #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz

You can add your vote for this beautiful & versatile mineral here https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

#crystals #rockhound #quartz #Hobbies

Luckily for a #rockhound here the stones are all #glacial leftovers (rarely found on the surface, they are buried in soil and turned up by farming, road work etc) and quite varied: lots of quartzite, lots of granite (I bet there are things I'm calling granite that aren't-lots of variety in that zone!), smaller bits of limestone (a lot of gravel is dolomite etc- but small pieces, rarely bigger rocks) and occasional sandstone and others.

Luckily for a #rockhound here the stones are all #glacial leftovers (rarely found on the surface, they are buried in soil and turned up by farming, road work etc) and quite varied: lots of quartzite, lots of granite (I bet there are things I'm calling granite that aren't-lots of variety in that zone!), smaller bits of limestone (a lot of gravel is dolomite etc- but small pieces, rarely bigger rocks) and occasional sandstone and others.

Dig into #Oklahoma's salt plains, from WWII bombs to wildlife refuge
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/environment/2023/08/13/great-salt-plains-enid-oklahoma-crystal-hunting-history-conservation/70470018007/

#Crystal #Geology #Selenite #RockHound

Mudlarking at Monte Lake (the Canadian version: agate digging in lakeside cliffs!)

#agates #bc #rockhound #earthcandy

Mudlarking at Monte Lake (the Canadian version: agate digging in lakeside cliffs!)

#agates #bc #rockhound #earthcandy

#Idaho #rockhound #rockhounding #maps

Two older maps for people wanting to find cool rocks in the Idaho/Oregon backcounty. No guarantee the locations are on public land so do your research before heading out to these places, please.

Enjoy.

Hubby and I spent yesterday polishing specimens: some Hampton Butte petrified wood, Dry Creek petrified and agatized wood, a petrified burl, two pieces of Paulina pink #agate limbcasts, and a sweet little #quartz nodule with a tiny #druzy vug.

#mineralporn #mineralspecimen #rockhound #rockhounding #petrifiedwood #lapidary #ragms #rockclub #southernoregon #getoutside #petrifiedrainbow #roxyann #oregonrockhounds #petrifiedburl #geology #hamptonbutte #prinevilleor #centraloregon

Hubby and I spent yesterday polishing specimens: some Hampton Butte petrified wood, Dry Creek petrified and agatized wood, a petrified burl, two pieces of Paulina pink #agate limbcasts, and a sweet little #quartz nodule with a tiny #druzy vug.

#mineralporn #mineralspecimen #rockhound #rockhounding #petrifiedwood #lapidary #ragms #rockclub #southernoregon #getoutside #petrifiedrainbow #roxyann #oregonrockhounds #petrifiedburl #geology #hamptonbutte #prinevilleor #centraloregon

Hubby and I spent yesterday polishing specimens: some Hampton Butte petrified wood, Dry Creek petrified and agatized wood, a petrified burl, two pieces of Paulina pink #agate limbcasts, and a sweet little #quartz nodule with a tiny #druzy vug.

#mineralporn #mineralspecimen #rockhound #rockhounding #petrifiedwood #lapidary #ragms #rockclub #southernoregon #getoutside #petrifiedrainbow #roxyann #oregonrockhounds #petrifiedburl #geology #hamptonbutte #prinevilleor #centraloregon

Hubby and I spent yesterday polishing specimens: some Hampton Butte petrified wood, Dry Creek petrified and agatized wood, a petrified burl, two pieces of Paulina pink #agate limbcasts, and a sweet little #quartz nodule with a tiny #druzy vug.

#mineralporn #mineralspecimen #rockhound #rockhounding #petrifiedwood #lapidary #ragms #rockclub #southernoregon #getoutside #petrifiedrainbow #roxyann #oregonrockhounds #petrifiedburl #geology #hamptonbutte #prinevilleor #centraloregon

Spending way too much time reading r/whatsthisrock

#Rocks #Minerals #Gems #RockHound

Weird Marketplace Find of the Day. Alien engraved rock.
#WeirdMarketplace #rock #RockHound #Alien #Symbol #BuyAndSell

I don't know how I missed this awesome geology map tool, saw it recently here on Mastodon (and now I've forgotten who to credit for it) but here you go, just zoom in on any region to find out about the rock formations, fossils, and faults. You can also draw elevation profiles. And the entries contain linked citations to the reports the information was drawn from!

https://macrostrat.org/map/#x=-115.901&y=38.915&z=4.3

#GeoScience #Geology #GeologyMap #Rock #RockHound #EarthScience #Fossil #Fault

I don't know how I missed this awesome geology map tool, saw it recently here on Mastodon (and now I've forgotten who to credit for it) but here you go, just zoom in on any region to find out about the rock formations, fossils, and faults. You can also draw elevation profiles. And the entries contain linked citations to the reports the information was drawn from!

https://macrostrat.org/map/#x=-115.901&y=38.915&z=4.3

#GeoScience #Geology #GeologyMap #Rock #RockHound #EarthScience #Fossil #Fault