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Largest Earthquake
Cinnabar
San Andreas Fault
Rock Tumblers

Largest Earthquake ever Cinnabar - the only important ore What is the San Andreas Fault? Rock Tumblers - All about rock
recorded - Magnitude 9.5. Chile, of mercury. Used in pigments until Map, photos and description of tumblers and rock tumbling. Read
1960. its toxicity was realized. the fault. before you buy a tumbler.

Morganite
Mineral Hardness
US Diamond Mines
Earthquake Maps

Morganite is an orange to pink Mohs Hardness Scale is a set of US Diamond Mines - Did you California Earthquake Maps - A
Categories gemstone, a variety of beryl, that reference minerals used for know that diamonds have been collection of isoseismal maps for
Diamonds is growing rapidly in popularity. classroom hardness testing. mined in the United States? earthquakes in California.
Earthquakes
Fossils
Gemstones Watch out for Ticks!
Underwater Volcano
Fireworks & Minerals
Fool*s Gold
General Geology
Geologic Hazards
Geology Dictionary
Gold
Igneous Rocks
Landslides
Metals
Metamorphic Rocks

Meteorites Ticks are a problem for geologists Hawaii*s Next Island could be The Science of Fireworks Learn Fool*s Gold is a name used for
Minerals in some areas. Learn to recognize growing in the Pacific Ocean right how the colors and shapes are pyrite when its brassy color fools
Oil and Gas and avoid them. now. Its name is Lo*ihi. created. people looking for gold.
Plate Tectonics
Rocks
Rock Tumblers
Opals
American Gemstones
Uses of Gold
Types of Maps
Satellite Images
Sedimentary Rocks
Teacher Resources
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Volcanoes
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Map Collections Mineraloids

Charoite
Greatest Ocean Depth
Soapstone
Alabama Map
Alaska Map
Arizona Map
Arkansas Map
California Map
Colorado Map
Connecticut Map
Delaware Map

Florida Map Mineraloids are amorphous Charoite is a purple silicate Deepest Point in the Ocean The Soapstone is a metamorphic rock
Georgia Map naturally-occurring inorganic mineral, found only in Russia, deepest point in the ocean is in with properties that make it
Hawaii Map solids that lack crystallinity. used as a gem material. the Mariana Trench. suitable for a variety of projects.
Idaho Map
Illinois Map
Indiana Map Rhodochrosite
Methane Hydrate
Colored Diamonds
June 6th 1912
Iowa Map
Kansas Map
Kentucky Map
Louisiana Map
Maine Map
Maryland Map
Massachusetts Map
Michigan Map

Minnesota Map Rhodochrosite - a manganese Methane Hydrate deposits Colored Diamonds are diamonds Novarupta - The most powerful
Mississippi Map mineral used as an ore, a pink contain more fuel value than all with a noticeable body color. They volcanic eruption of the 20th
Missouri Map gem and an ornamental stone. other fossil fuels combined. can sell for over $1M/carat. century occurred in the U.S.A.
Montana Map
Nebraska Map
Nevada Map Corundum
Azurite
Bear Map
Rock and Mineral Kits
New Hampshire Map
New Jersey Map
New Mexico Map
New York Map
North Carolina Map
North Dakota Map
Ohio Map
Oklahoma Map

Oregon Map Corundum is the third hardest Azurite - Used as an ore of Range of Bear Species - Where Rock & Mineral Kits The best
Pennsylvania Map mineral. It is also the mineral of copper, a pigment, ornamental you might encounter different way to learn about rocks and
Rhode Island Map ruby and sapphire. stone and gem material. types of bears. minerals is with specimens!
South Carolina Map
South Dakota Map
Tennessee Map Obsidian
Hurricane Names
Misconception
Shale
Texas Map
Utah Map
Vermont Map
Virginia Map
Washington Map
West Virginia Map
Wisconsin Map
Wyoming Map

Obsidian - the volcanic rock that How Are Hurricanes Named? Diamond Misconception - Many Shale - The rock that has quickly
cools so quickly that it becomes a There is a plan for naming tropical people think that diamonds form transformed the oil and gas
natural glass. storms. from coal. Not True! industry.

Geology Tools
Labradorite
A Country In the News
Birthstones

Geology Tools Rock hammers, Labradorite is a feldspar mineral Where Is Belarus? The Republic Birthstones are gems assigned
field bags, hand lenses, maps, that sometimes exhibits an of Belarus, is a landlocked country to the month of a person*s birth.
hardness picks, gold pans. iridescent play-of-color. in Eastern Europe. They are popular gifts in the U.S.

Expansive Soil
Geodes
Hardness Picks
Ethiopian Opal

Expansive Soil causes more Geodes look like ordinary rocks Hardness Picks - Test for Ethiopian Opal - The new opal
damage than floods, hurricanes & on the outside but can be hardness with precise and easy- heavyweight that might give
tornadoes combined. spectacular inside! to-use hardness picks. Australia a run.

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Great Rift Valley

The Brewery Rock ?
Copper vs COVID-19
Granite

The East Africa Rift System - The Rock Used to Make Beer - Copper Kills COVID-19 and Granite - The intrusive igneous
The extensive fault system that is Geologists are beer experts and many other pathogens to limit the rock that underlies continents and
tearing Africa apart. should know about this rock. spread of disease. countertops.

Google Earth - Free

Petrified Wood
UV Mineral Lamp
Minerals

Free Google Earth software Petrified Wood is a fossil that Portable UV Lamp - Short and Minerals - Descriptions, photos,
allows you to browse seamless forms when silica replaces and long wave UV for fluorescent articles, properties and uses for
world satellite images. Free. infills the cavities of wood. mineral viewing. common minerals.

Tallest Mountain
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Wall Maps

Tallest Mountain - Everest has Rocks - Galleries of igneous, Plate Tectonics - Articles and Wall Maps - Wall maps of the
rivals in tallness, altitude and sedimentary and metamorphic maps about plate tectonics and world, continents, states and the
distance to the center of Earth. rock photos with descriptions. the interior of Earth. USA.

Hematite
Geology Books
Tourmaline
Lightning Strikes Map

Hematite - The most important Geology Books - A variety of Tourmaline - an extremely Lightning Strikes Map by NASA
ore of iron. A source of mineral books for reference, field trips, colorful mineral and gem material. shows the worldwide distribution
pigment since prehistory. reading and more. of lightning activity.

Diamonds
Tanzanite
Peridotite
Turquoise

Diamonds - Learn about the Tanzanite was unknown until a Peridotite is a chromite host rock, Turquoise - A bluish-green gem
properties of diamond, its many few decades ago but it has a source of diamonds and a material that has been used for
uses, and diamond discoveries. erupted into wide popularity. possible carbon dioxide sink. over 6000 years.

Waterproof Paper
Emerald
Hawaiian Hot Spot
Crater of Diamonds

Waterproof Paper - Don't take Emerald is the most popular How did the Hawaiian Islands Crater of Diamonds - The only
chances with your field notes and green gemstone in the United Form? The power of a moving diamond mine in the world where
maps. Use waterproof paper. States and most of the world. plate over a stationary hot spot. you can be the miner.

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Fluorescent Minerals
Meteorites
Gem Silica
What Is The Moho?

Fluorescent Minerals and rocks Meteorites - Rocks that were Gem Silica is a blue chalcedony What Is The Moho? The
glow with spectacular colors under once parts of planets or large colored by copper. It is the rarest Mohorovicic Discontinuity is the
ultraviolet light. asteroids. and most valuable chalcedony. mantle/crust boundary.

Cinder Cones
Rock Art
Ant Hill Garnets
The British Isles

Cinder Cones are the smallest, Rock Art - People have been Ant Hill Garnets - tiny gems that Names Used for Great Britain,
simplest, and most common type marking on rocks for thousands of ants haul to the surface and British Isles, United Kingdom, and
of volcano. years. discard on their anthill. Honest! Ireland. What they mean.

Lapis Lazuli
What is a Geyser?
Gold Pans
What is a Maar?

Lapis Lazuli - a metamorphic What is a Geyser? Photos and Gold Pans and Panning Kits - What is a Maar? The second
rock and the most popular blue information about geysers in many classifiers, snuffer bottles. Learn most common volcanic landscape
opaque gemstone in history. parts of the world. how to pan for Gold. feature on Earth.

Rock Salt
Spinel
Hand Lens
What is Geology?

Hand Lens A 10-power folding What is Geology? The study of

magnifier in a metal case. A Earth materials, structures,
frequently used lab and field tool. processes and life over time.

Rock Salt is a sedimentary rock 10 Gemmy Facts About Spinel -

composed of the mineral halite. It Is spinel the world*s most
has many uses! overlooked gem?

Largest Diamonds
Mineral Rights
Gemstones
Quartzite

World*s Largest Diamonds Mineral Rights - Who owns the Gemstones - Colorful images and Quartzite is metamorphic rock
Records for the largest rough, minerals under your land? Who articles about diamonds and formed when sandstone is
faceted and carbonado diamond. wants to buy them? colored stones. subjected to heat and pressure.

Largest Volcanoes
Coal Close Up
Cave of the Hands
Homeowners Insurance

Largest Volcano - That title is Coal Through a Microscope - Cave of the Hands is a cave Homeowners Insurance might
shared by Tamu Massif, Mauna Coal is more than a black rock. It where ancient people painted not cover earthquake, hurricane
Kea and Ojos del Salado. is THE most interesting rock. hands about 9000 years ago. and other geohazard damage.

Volcanoes
What Is Earth Science?
Sliding Rocks
Teacher Resources

Volcanoes - Articles about What Is Earth Science? The Sliding Rocks Mystery - What Teacher Resources - K-12
volcanoes, volcanic hazards and study of Earth and its neighbors in causes these rocks to slide across resources for teaching about earth
eruptions past and present. space. Learn more! a playa in Death Valley? science.

Olivine
Bear Attacks
Tallest Tsunami
Chalcopyrite

Olivine - Abundant in Earth*s Bear Attacks - Knowing how to Tallest Tsunami - A wave with a Chalcopyrite - The most
mantle. A constituent of react to a bear encounter or attack run-up height of 1720 feet important ore of copper for over
meteorites. The gem peridot. could save your life. occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska. five thousand years.

Citrine
100+ Gemstones
Gems from Space
Tallest Waterfall

Citrine is the transparent variety 100+ Gems - Photos of over 100 Extraterrestrial Gems - A Angel Falls in Venezuela is the
of quartz with a yellow to orange beautiful gems ranging from the number of materials from space tallest waterfall in the world - it is
to reddish color. popular to the obscure. are used as attractive gems. 3212 feet tall.

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Ruby and Sapphire

Herkimer Diamonds
Coquina
DeLorme Atlas

Ruby and Sapphire are the 2nd Herkimer Diamonds Doubly- Coquina - A porous limestone Topo Maps - The DeLorme Atlas
and 3rd most popular colored terminated quartz crystals used as composed almost entirely of fossil is an entire state of topo maps in
stones in the United States. specimens and gems. debris. one convenient book.

Debris Flows
Rare Earth Elements
Ilmenite
Mars Meteorites

Debris Flows are moving masses Rare Earths - Special materials Ilmenite - The primary ore of Mars Meteorites Mars rovers
of loose mud, sand, soil, rock and used in electronics, defense, titanium and source of most have found dozens of meteorites
water. medical & many other products. titanium dioxide. traveling around the red planet.

Horizontal Drilling
Volcanic Explosivity
Types Of Eruptions
Gifts That Rock

Horizontal Drilling has opened Volcanic Explosivity - Rating Types of Volcanic Eruptions - A Gifts That Rock - What are the
new resources and significantly volcanic eruptions based upon the description of the most common most popular gift items in the
improved productivity. volume of tephra ejected. eruption types. Geology.com store?

Mount Vesuvius
Rhyolite
The Acid Test
Don*t Go To Jail

Mount Vesuvius - geology, Rhyolite An extrusive igneous The Acid Test - Geologists use Know the Rules before removing
history, maps, facts and more rock with a high silica content, dilute hydrochloric acid to identify rocks, fossils or minerals from
about the Vesuvius eruptions. produced from granitic magma. carbonate minerals. public or private property.

E.T. Volcanoes
Field Courses
Largest Hurricanes
Chalk

Solar System Volcanoes - Earth Field Courses - Over 80 field Largest Hurricanes Are they Chalk is a variety of limestone
is not the only location of volcanic courses for undergraduate determined by wind speed, value formed from fine-grained marine
activity. geology students. of damage, most deaths? sediment known as ooze.

Blue Flames
Uses of Talc
Uses of Marble
Grape Agate

Blue Flames and the largest Talc is a soft mineral used in The Uses of Marble are Grape Agate is a popular mineral
highly acidic lake in the world at cosmetics, paper, paint, ceramics numerous and diverse. You will be specimen with the color and the
Kawah Ijen Volcano. and many other products. surprised by how it is used. shape of a bunch of grapes.

Crushed Stone
Pyroxene Minerals
Zircon
Sand

The Unsung Mineral Hero - and Pyroxene Minerals are a group Zircon is the primary ore of Sand is a diverse material. This
the commodity upon which almost of chain silicate minerals found in zirconium and a gemstone that is gallery includes photos of sand
everything is built. igneous and metamorphic rocks. available in many colors. from around the world.

Utica Shale
Mount Cleveland
Fire Opal
Record Lightning

Utica Shale is a major source of Mount Cleveland is an active Fire Opal is a transparent to World Record Lightning - this
oil, natural gas and natural gas volcano in the Aleutian Islands translucent opal with a yellow, lake has more lightning than any
liquids in PA, OH and WV. and a threat to air traffic. orange or red background color. other place in the world.

Storm Surge
Diabase
Rocks on Mars
Mount Etna

Storm Surge can be the most Diabase - the rock selected for Rocks on Mars Many of the rocks Mount Etna - The most active
damaging and deadly aspect of a Stonehenge and transported 240 found on Mars are not very volcano in Europe continues an
hurricane. miles in 2100 BC. different from Earth rocks. eruption that started in 2001.

 

 
 
 

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