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E.T. Volcanoes

Solar System Volcanoes - Earth is not the only location of volcanic activity.
What is a Geyser?

What is a Geyser? Photos and information about geysers in many parts of the world.
Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry Quartz is a red to pink quartz with inclusions that look like strawberry seeds.
Gifts That Rock

Gifts That Rock - What are the most popular gift items in the Geology.com store?
Fluorescent Minerals

Fluorescent Minerals and rocks glow with spectacular colors under ultriolet light.
Geology News

Geology News including: Earth science, mining, gemology, maps, metals, archaeology, and more.
Petrified Wood

Petrified Wood is a fossil that forms when silica replaces and infills the cities of wood.
100+ Gemstones

100+ Gems - Photos of over 100 beautiful gems ranging from the popular to the obscure.
Fossils

Fossils are remains, traces or imprints of ancient life. They reveal Earth's biological history.
Crater of Diamonds

Crater of Diamonds - The only diamond mine in the world where you can be the miner.
Crystal Habit

Crystal Habit is the external shape displayed by a crystal or an aggregate of crystals.
Plate Tectonics

Teaching Plate Tectonics with easy-to-draw illustrations is fun and effective.
Mineral Hardness

Mohs Hardness Scale is a set of reference minerals used for classroom hardness testing.
Types of Maps

Types of Maps - Explore some of the most popular types of maps that he been made.
Rock Salt

Rock Salt is a sedimentary rock composed of the mineral halite. It has many uses!
Hardness Picks

Hardness Picks - Test for hardness with precise and easy-to-use hardness picks.
Largest Hurricanes

Largest Hurricanes Are they determined by wind speed, value of damage, most deaths?
Bear Map

Range of Bear Species - Where you might encounter different types of bears.
Rock and Mineral Kits

Rock & Mineral Kits The best way to learn about rocks and minerals is with specimens!
Cinder Cones

Cinder Cones are the smallest, simplest, and most common type of volcano.
Rocks on Mars

Rocks on Mars Many of the rocks found on Mars are not very different from Earth rocks.
US Diamond Mines

US Diamond Mines - Did you know that diamonds he been mined in the United States?
Tallest Mountain

Tallest Mountain - Everest has rivals in tallness, altitude and distance to the center of Earth.
Great Rift Valley

The East Africa Rift System - The extensive fault system that is tearing Africa apart.
Hurricane Names

How Are Hurricanes Named? There is a plan for naming tropical storms.
DeLorme Atlas

Topo Maps - The DeLorme Atlas is an entire state of topo maps in one convenient book.
Rock Tumblers

Rock Tumblers - All about rock tumblers and rock tumbling. Read before you buy a tumbler.
Uses of Gold

The Many Uses of Gold - Unique properties make gold one of the most useful metals.
Fireworks!

The Science of Fireworks Metal oxides are what produce the bright colors of fireworks.
Ruby and Sapphire

Ruby and Sapphire are the 2nd and 3rd most popular colored stones in the United States.
Tallest Waterfall

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the tallest waterfall in the world - it is 3212 feet tall.
American Gemstones

Mined in America - Small mines in the United States produce a diversity of beautiful gemstones.
Tourmaline

Tourmaline - an extremely colorful mineral and gem material.
Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold is a name used for pyrite when its brassy color fools people looking for gold.
Cinnabar

Cinnabar - the only important ore of mercury. Used in pigments until its toxicity was realized.
Rare Earth Elements

Rare Earths - Special materials used in electronics, defense, medical & many other products.
Grape Agate

Grape Agate is a popular mineral specimen with the color and the shape of a bunch of grapes.
Darvaza Gas Crater

The Doorway to Hell is a flaming sinkhole seeping natural gas that has been burning for decades.
Fire Opal

Fire Opal is a transparent to translucent opal with a yellow, orange or red background color.
Geodes

Geodes look like ordinary rocks on the outside but can be spectacular inside!
Lightning Strikes Map

Lightning Strikes Map by NASA shows the worldwide distribution of lightning activity.
Turquoise

Turquoise - A bluish-green gem material that has been used for over 6000 years.
Birthstones

Birthstones are gems assigned to the month of a person's birth. They are popular gifts in the U.S.
Labradorite

Labradorite is a feldspar mineral that sometimes exhibits an iridescent play-of-color.
Shale

Shale - The rock that has quickly transformed the oil and gas industry.
Bear Attacks

Bear Attacks - Knowing how to react to a bear encounter or attack could se your life.
Minerals

Minerals - Descriptions, photos, articles, properties and uses for common minerals.
The British Isles

Names Used for Great Britain, British Isles, United Kingdom, and Ireland. What they mean.
Gems from Space

Extraterrestrial Gems - A number of materials from space are used as attractive gems.
Olivine

Olivine - Abundant in Earth's mantle. A constituent of meteorites. The gem peridot.
Herkimer Diamonds

Herkimer Diamonds Doubly-terminated quartz crystals used as specimens and gems.
Andalusite

Andalusite is a metamorphic mineral and a strongly pleochroic gem.
Emerald

Emerald is the most popular green gemstone in the United States and most of the world.
Largest Volcanoes

Largest Volcano - That title is shared by Tamu Massif, Mauna Kea and Ojos del Salado.
Chalk

Chalk is a variety of limestone formed from fine-grained marine sediment known as ooze.
Granite

Granite - The intrusive igneous rock that underlies continents and countertops.
Volcanoes

Volcanoes - Articles about volcanoes, volcanic hazards and eruptions past and present.
Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics - Articles and maps about plate tectonics and the interior of Earth.
Tanzanite

Tanzanite was unknown until a few decades ago but it has erupted into wide popularity.
Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite - a manganese mineral used as an ore, a pink gem and an ornamental stone.
Meteorites

Meteorites - Rocks that were once parts of planets or large asteroids.
Canadian Diamonds

Canadian Diamond Mines produce some of the largest and highest quality diamonds!
Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli - a metamorphic rock and the most popular blue opaque gemstone in history.
Ilmenite

Ilmenite - The primary ore of titanium and source of most titanium dioxide.
Hawaiian Hot Spot

How did the Hawaiian Islands Form? The power of a moving plate over a stationary hot spot.
The Acid Test

The Acid Test - Geologists use dilute hydrochloric acid to identify carbonate minerals.
Teacher Resources

Teacher Resources - K-12 resources for teaching about earth science.
Rhyolite

Rhyolite An extrusive igneous rock with a high silica content, produced from granitic magma.
Ce of the Hands

Ce of the Hands is a ce where ancient people painted hands about 9000 years ago.
Lab-Grown Diamonds

Lab-Grown Diamonds? What are they? Can people really make diamonds? Are they real?
Chalcopyrite

Chalcopyrite - The most important ore of copper for over five thousand years.
Gemstones

Gemstones - Colorful images and articles about diamonds and colored stones.
Rocks

Rocks - Galleries of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock photos with descriptions.
Google Earth - Free

Free Google Earth software allows you to browse seamless world satellite images. Free.
Quartzite

Quartzite is metamorphic rock formed when sandstone is subjected to heat and pressure.
Earthquake Maps

California Earthquake Maps - A collection of isoseismal maps for earthquakes in California.
Rock Art

Rock Art - People he been marking on rocks for thousands of years.
San Andreas Fault

What is the San Andreas Fault? Map, photos and description of the fault.
The Brewery Rock ?

The Rock Used to Make Beer - Geologists are beer experts and should know about this rock.
Map of the Oceans

Map of the Oceans - showing the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans.
Types Of Eruptions

Types of Volcanic Eruptions - A description of the most common eruption types.
Colored Diamonds

Colored Diamonds are diamonds with a noticeable body color. They can sell for over $1M/carat.
Wall Maps

Wall Maps - Wall maps of the world, continents, states and the USA.
Diamonds

Diamonds - Learn about the properties of diamond, its many uses, and diamond discoveries.
Uses of Talc

Talc is a soft mineral used in cosmetics, paper, paint, ceramics and many other products.
Great Lakes

Great Lakes : Map of the Great Lakes with surrounding states and provinces.
Blue Flames

Blue Flames and the largest highly acidic lake in the world at Kawah Ijen Volcano.
Gem Silica

Gem Silica is a blue chalcedony colored by copper. It is the rarest and most valuable chalcedony.
Corundum

Corundum is the third hardest mineral. It is also the mineral of ruby and sapphire.
Spinel

13 Gemmy Facts About Spinel - Is spinel the world's most overlooked gem?
Zircon

Zircon is the primary ore of zirconium and a gemstone that is ailable in many colors.
Obsidian

Obsidian - the volcanic rock that cools so quickly that it becomes a natural glass.
Geology Books

Geology Books - A variety of books for reference, field trips, reading and more.
Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius - geology, history, maps, facts and more about the Vesuvius eruptions.
Sand Photo Collection

Sand from Around the World . A photo gallery showing the diversity of the material we call "sand".
Tallest Tsunami

Tallest Tsunami - A we with a run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska.
Hematite

Hematite - The most important ore of iron. A source of mineral pigment since prehistory.
What is Geology?

What is Geology? The study of Earth materials, structures, processes and life over time.
Opals

Pictures of Opal - A collection of different types of opal from all around the world and Mars too!
What Is Earth Science?

What Is Earth Science? The study of Earth and its neighbors in space. Learn more!
Mineraloids

Mineraloids are amorphous naturally-occurring inorganic solids that lack crystallinity.
Misconception

Diamond Misconception - Many people think that diamonds form from coal. Not True!
Soapstone

Soapstone is a metamorphic rock with properties that make it suitable for a variety of projects.
Gold Pans

Gold Pans and Panning Kits - classifiers, snuffer bottles. Learn how to pan for Gold.
Ethiopian Opal

Ethiopian Opal - The new opal heyweight that might give Australia a run.
What Is The Moho?

What Is The Moho? The Mohorovicic Discontinuity is the mantle/crust boundary.
Sliding Rocks

Sliding Rocks Mystery - What causes these rocks to slide across a playa in Death Valley?
June 6th 1912

Novarupta - The most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century occurred in the U.S.A.
Field Courses

Field Courses - Over 80 field courses for undergraduate geology students.
Greatest Ocean Depth

Deepest Point in the Ocean The deepest point in the ocean is in the Mariana Trench.
Largest Earthquake

Largest Earthquake ever recorded - Magnitude 9.5. Chile, 1960.
Underwater Volcano

Hawaii's Next Island could be growing in the Pacific Ocean right now. Its name is Lo'ihi.

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