Totally legal. Totally cool. /s
Olivine weathering - Works in Progress
Olivine is a green mineral that reacts with CO2 in the ocean to form a harmless silt. This reaction might be the key to slowing down climate change, or reversing it altogether.
I use dirvish a text based cron enabled rsync front end. Read dirvish.org for details about it.
I use this to clone and hold time based backups to external disks which I can verify or use offsite.
Rock solid for years.
Here's some I have even reread.
Love the Murderbot series too.
Bonus: Trancers/Jack Deth movies.
Folded Schist: Small-Scale folds accentuated by glittering mica crystals
A medium-grained banded (schist rock segregated into distinct bands showing schistosity, a wavy foliation, caused by the rock splitting along planes of weakness. The mica crystals emphasize the folds. A schist is a metamorphic rock in which the medium grains can be seen with a hand lens and are orientated so it can be split into flakes or plates.
Spodumene: lithium-bearing pegmatite silicate
Spodumene
Spodumene is a lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl(SiO3)2 and is a primary source of lithium used for ceramics, mobile phones and batteries, especially for electric vehicles.
Spodumene crystals can grow to several meters in length. The gem variety of Spodumene is called Kunzite. Spodumene fluoresces orange red under long wave UV light.
Spodumene is found and produced worldwide primarily in US, Canada, S. America, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Australia.
Learning about LLSVPs or Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces within the Earth
Image By Kelvinsong - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23966175
LLSVPs are large structures that reside at the base of the rocky mantle above the outer molten core about halfway to the center and are primarily located under the Pacific Ocean, another under Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.
Welcome to the geology community.
This community is about all things geology.
I'll start with trying to post one fantastic specimen (not all mine) picture per day. I'll next be posting some basic rockhounding to geology info and add in some stories of my collecting adventures.
Everyone feel free to post in the same vein or suggest new areas of geology that interest you. I hope to learn, share and have fun!