Columns Of Extrusive Igneous Rhyolite, Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona.

Rime-rimmed rocks

Looking a bit like white moss, these cairn stones on Mountbenger Law in Scotland (at an elevation of 543 m) are covered in a special type of ice known as rime.

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Fluorite - Schacht 78 Mine, Frohnau, Annaberg, Saxony, Germany

Villanueva State Park, New Mexico

Snoqualmie Falls, Twin Peaks, Washington 2019.

Man O’ War Bay, Dorset.

This world isn't ready for geocore. This world can't handle it. It's too powerful. Imagine turning every aspect of geology and geologists into a fun aesthetic... All the nerdy rock puns, sciencey bits, dirt digging, bone and stone hoarding glory of geology turned into a fun little collection of pics and beautiful writing to perfectly capture the feelings of geology.

We can make beautiful poetry about the gorgeous array of colors inside a single stone or silly little ones like "hot hot rock, rock so hot, bake on it potatoe tot". Y'all. Geocore would fucking slap as an aesthetic thing. It'd be like normal geology but with more.

Église de Bertholène, Aveyron by thalie_o_brun

The American Museum of Natural History takes you along on a dinosaur dig in the Morrison Formation of the US west, host of many of the famous Jurassic dinosaur bones found in North America.