My favirote rock is Obsidian. Because its fast cooled magma, normally extruded underwater
My favirote mineral is Calcite, because it reacts with acid and is generally cool!
Shap Granite, for no other reason than I get to go round singing "Shap! - Aaahhhaaahhh it'll save every one of us!" to the Flash Gordon theme tune. 8) I think I may have revealed too much... :oops:
I've always like granite, just 'cause it's pretty. I have a very nice piece of Scottish granite sitting on my shelf that I picked up when I visited the Solway Firth
"Rhyolite" ash-flow tuffs because that's all I'm really qualified to look at anymore and it hosts nice little gold ore bodies occasionally...thanks to Benhauld for finally revealing what those song lyrics were actually saying...I thought it was something like '...Flash, wow oh, master of the universe..."
thanks to Benhauld for finally revealing what those song lyrics were actually saying...I thought it was something like '...Flash, wow oh, master of the universe..."
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
My favirote rock is Obsidian. Because its fast cooled magma, normally extruded underwater
My favirote mineral is Calcite, because it reacts with acid and is generally cool!
Jack
Rank: Feldspar
Joined: 01/06/2004
Points: 1091
Probably shale because it can have cool fossils in it
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
Rank: Apatite
Joined: 02/08/2005
Points: 906
Mine's got to be limestone because it hosts an amazing underground world.
Gus
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 29/01/2006
Points: 182
Carboniferous limestone at the moment. I'm also pretty fond of lewisian gneiss.
Rank: Talc
Joined: 02/07/2006
Points: 48
Paleozoic Limestones, preferably in the Canadian Rockies.
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 31/12/2004
Points: 466
Shap Granite, for no other reason than I get to go round singing "Shap! - Aaahhhaaahhh it'll save every one of us!" to the Flash Gordon theme tune. 8) I think I may have revealed too much... :oops:
Ben.
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 13/09/2006
Points: 122
Pumice is a cool rock coz it floats.
And it gets rid of hard skin on your feet.
And it's got little air bubbles in it just like Aero chocolate bars and anything that reminds me of chocolate is a winner with me.
Rank: Apatite
Joined: 08/09/2004
Points: 695
I've always like granite, just 'cause it's pretty. I have a very nice piece of Scottish granite sitting on my shelf that I picked up when I visited the Solway Firth
~Jenny~
Rainbow Stitching Club - why not pop in for a visit?
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Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 19/01/2006
Points: 347
Perovskite - Earth's most abundant mineral
... now if only if I could get my hands on some
Geologists like a nappe between thrusts
Rank: Talc
Joined: 20/07/2006
Points: 22
"Rhyolite" ash-flow tuffs because that's all I'm really qualified to look at anymore and it hosts nice little gold ore bodies occasionally...thanks to Benhauld for finally revealing what those song lyrics were actually saying...I thought it was something like '...Flash, wow oh, master of the universe..."
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 13/09/2006
Points: 122
My beautiful pumice stone..all light 'n' bubbly rockyness:
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 20/04/2005
Points: 306
Maybe...gneises and schists, but quartzites and slates too, so I think that I should say that all the Metasediments are my favorites.
Javi
Lucky man whose destiny is to know the Earth´s secrets. Eurípides (480-405)
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 31/12/2004
Points: 466
thanks to Benhauld for finally revealing what those song lyrics were actually saying...I thought it was something like '...Flash, wow oh, master of the universe..."
Any little thing I can do for the masses, Dim
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http://www.loglar.com/song.php?id=13524
Ben.
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
I'm liking quartz a bit more now, because i made two bits of it spark! its cool!
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
I made Gypsum on that last post! yay!
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 13/09/2006
Points: 122
yay, I evolved into gypsum too, but only realised this morning!
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
Only another 4934 to go for me to get to diamond!
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 21/11/2005
Points: 100
My favourite rock is granite, partly because Cornwall would not exist woithout it and I live there.
However I like schist and gneiss because I can use it to describe people and things.
i.e.
theape is schist and not gneiss
Renewable Energy Rocks
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
Please explain whatever i have done to you to use such descriptive language against me?
Quote:
theape is schist and not gneiss
I dont think that its fair!
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 21/11/2005
Points: 100
You havn't questioned the truthfulness though
Renewable Energy Rocks
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
I'm too truthful to do that!
Rank: Talc
Joined: 30/10/2006
Points: 12
fave rock is granite.
Rank: Talc
Joined: 24/10/2006
Points: 41
My favourite rock is a garnet mica schist. Good to look at in thin section!!
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
Rank: Topaz
Joined: 18/12/2006
Points: 3126
My favourite rock is a garnet mica schist. Good to look at in thin section!!
Very pretty!
Geologists are gneiss!!
Rank: Talc
Joined: 24/10/2006
Points: 41
Makes all those hours studying thin sections worth it!!
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
Rank: Topaz
Joined: 18/12/2006
Points: 3126
Might have to disagree with you there
Nothing makes thin sections really worth it - the pretty colours are a distraction though!
Geologists are gneiss!!
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 25/06/2004
Points: 448
Epidosite...maybe
Or not...
www.bgs.ac.uk www.mdsg.org.uk www.le.ac.uk/geology www.geolsoc.org.uk www.ex.ac.uk/csm Did you know that the name Cyprus is derived from the greek/latin for copper? or vice versa.....
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 13/09/2006
Points: 122
Whoohoo, I'm Calcite!!!!
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 14/09/2006
Points: 275
Congrats! Me calcite too!
Rank: Talc
Joined: 04/10/2006
Points: 38
I think im going to have to go with basalt. Its pretty when its shiny black.
although im quite into finding some nice black shale with funny trilobites for me to bag.