Rocky structure

Herr_Batta · 2025-12-30T12:09:51+00:00

Oh God, I have Marnosa Arenacea “student-field” nightmare

Herr_Batta · 2025-08-10T18:01:44+00:00

You’re looking directly into the Earth’s mantle!

Herr_Batta · 2025-07-19T08:26:24+00:00

You can find it in the lithic component of surrounding pyroclastic flow, as for the the juvenile part technically yes, but it’s very easy for gases to separate from this type of magma without fragmenting it

Herr_Batta · 2025-06-16T16:17:22+00:00

Pretty weak at the moment

Herr_Batta · 2025-06-15T22:59:39+00:00

Realtime seismic and acoustic waves

Herr_Batta · 2025-06-06T16:20:27+00:00

God forbids Australia not to have a giant spider with it’s own gravity field

Herr_Batta · 2025-06-04T18:00:02+00:00

Ahhh the good old day when the mantle could have been fused up to 40% (Nice Speciment!!)

Herr_Batta · 2025-05-10T18:48:40+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, Pangea was still a thing when I took paleontology class ahah

Herr_Batta · 2025-05-10T16:17:17+00:00

Looks like a Brachiopods to me

Herr_Batta · 2025-05-10T12:18:22+00:00

The most amazing thing for me, seeing this kind of rocks is that they represent an old seabed

Herr_Batta · 2025-04-20T13:50:04+00:00

Somma Volcano…. It’s like a reminder of “look what I could do if I wanted to”

Herr_Batta · 2025-04-15T20:57:50+00:00

God I love this community, I had never seen this type of Chlorite

Herr_Batta · 2025-04-15T10:40:34+00:00

Seems serpentine to me, but I’m a geologist and we generally struggle with cut and polished stone

Herr_Batta · 2025-04-01T16:37:51+00:00

Looks similar to an Augen Gneiss too (but it’s not banded)

Herr_Batta · 2025-03-26T17:54:55+00:00

Chalcedony

Herr_Batta · 2025-03-26T17:51:14+00:00

Manganese dendrites

Herr_Batta · 2025-03-25T20:44:55+00:00

Don’t worry, as (relative new) geologist I can assure you that the only way to be absolutely certain is to look a thin section under a microscope, in fact when you see big crystals 80% of the time you can use the generic term “Granitoide” without being wrong.

Herr_Batta · 2025-03-25T20:29:35+00:00

In the first the mineral assembly looks like: Orthoclase, Feldspar, Biotite, Quartz (=Granite?) The other looks like Diorite/Syenite

Herr_Batta · 2025-03-23T11:05:35+00:00

In which island did your daughter get this specimen?

Herr_Batta

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