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Check Out This Crazy Natural Ammonite.

Credit: Crypto Crystals

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Hung Ton

Yosemite Firefall Feb-20-2025.

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Amazing Torbernite and Smoky Quartz From Margabal Mine, Entraygues-sur-Truyere, Aveyron, Occitanie, France.

Photo 📷 @qileisi1987

It is a radioactive, hydrated green copper uranyl phosphate, found in granites and other uranium-bearing deposits as a secondary mineral.

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Noticed something a little funky in the world around you and want to figure out what's up? Especially if there might be something you ought to be doing about it? Not sure what information sources to trust these days? If you're in the US, federal agencies like NOAA, USGS, EPA and more collect massive amounts of scientific data every day, much of which is publicly available online - if you know where to look.

A PDF version with clickable links is available for free on my itchio page (quakeandquiver); I'll add a direct link in a reblog.

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Oil Rigs look god in the eyes and spits on their shoes

SERIOUSLY WHO JUST WENT:

"Ah, mhyes quite. The Number Must Climb™; sacrifice peasantry to collect the Death that coalesces in locked-away packets of the deepest underground depths. This death has rotted beyond normal decomposition, giving it undue ability to effectively reanimate inanimate matter upon combustion. "

AND THEN CONTINUED WITH:

"Furthermore, we shall build a monument to this Death; a Hell borne of jagged angles and crude iron. Behold, ye witless peons! Harvest for with me! Partake of what we know not of handling! Imbue life into our mechanical automatons; derive VIGOR from DEATH! A brutalist siphon that exchanges life quality for work quantity- directly converting my serfdom's labor into cold! Hard! Cash! This has no chance of hurting the entire species. Harvesting the energy of death is a smart and sane thing to do : ) "

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all sorts of echoes in these caverns

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Hard rock? Lol. yeah most of them are

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I think rocks are divine in a certain way because they were first

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as if nature isn't the most prolific storyteller out there!! with her layers of sediment and mountain-top fossils. with her trodden down paths and carved out river beds. with her fresh springs and billowing waterfalls. rotting branches and hollowed tree trunks... creeping coastlines and collapsing cliff faces... a living record of time immemorial; both an archiver and witness!!

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y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were

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Don't you mean "They got rough and tumbled by creature???"

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volcanologist: the earth is beautiful even in its most destructive moments. i will choose to risk my life and my limited time in this world so that i may witness the earth re-create itself over and over. i can blow away like ash in the wind and it shall not matter, because my soul is at peace with the knowledge that we are all made from and become part of the earth in the end

sedimentologist: hey guys who wants to take home 64 buckets of wet clay

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Laundrosaurus, a piece of household surrealism, by Helga Stentzel

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I went for a walk on a private beach because all the summer home people are long gone for the year and I found an extra large and extra in charge polychaete

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Tell me a shroom fact please

a recently-found amber fossil (dating to ~100 million years ago) suggests that dinosaurs ingested psychotropic fungi !!

in this fossil, we see some of the earliest recorded evidence of grass. atop the grass? a fungal parasite. in comparison with our fungi today, this fungus is most similar to ergot - fungi that grow on rye & produce alkaloids. ergot has been used as a medicine, a poison & a hallucinogen by humans for thousand of years.

"there’s no doubt in my mind that it would have been eaten by sauropod dinosaurs, although we can’t know what exact effect it had on them." - george poinar jr, of the oregon state university's college of science.

the small chance that dinosaurs tripped on psychedelics keeps me going, tbh.

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New find Pyrite with natural iridescence. Las Minas, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Stands. https://goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/1577034170